Quotes About Expectations

You put deadlines on people you really don't want, because that's how you feel about them.

There's a familiarity that sometimes shocks and annoys the hell out of me. People want a relationship with you that they haven't earned.

Happy relationships are boring. We all want them in our own life. But I don't want to watch them on TV.

Failure, it is thought, is what sells, and what people want to hear and read about. I am not so sure.

I have high expectations for myself. I'm not out there playing the game just to be playing it. I want to win a championship.

We seem to live a culture that doesn't want blemishes. The vision of most beautiful models... airbrushed in order to be seen as perfect, infects our notion of how literature should be written.

Am I going to be able to be the person I want to be in this relationship?

Every person is so different and I dont think there is an exact match for every person. If you meet someone and they have 20 of the 25 things you want in a person, then youre pretty lucky.

It's interesting that people always want to ask me and a lot of working mothers, how do you do it? And it's like well, just like everybody else. It proves it's a bad question.

If you become a star known for one thing, that becomes your thing, and you don't want that, on some DNA level.

I can't give parties. It's so hard. When I want to call somebody up for dinner they think I'm using them or something. I just can't stand it.

On the superficiality of the industry: We are setting an example of what we think is beautiful and you really want to put that much make up on me?

My mom always wanted me to be an actor. And I started going to theater and going on auditions young. I only realized about five years ago that I actually didn't want to be an actor.

People gave me such a bad time about wanting a baby. I didn't want a baby, and I still don't. I wanted a dog.

If anybody had shown me the paperwork for how my life was going to look in five years, I would have said, "No. That is not where I want to go."

With the media how it is these days, people expect to know everything. I don't talk about my girlfriend because essentially she doesn't want to be talked about.

People's relationship to what they want from theatre is changing. People, including me, are still looking for the next STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. And people can't or won't write that anymore.

I gave you seven children, but now you want to give them back.

Bad movies are when people go oh, I wasted $10 bucks and 2 hours and I don't even want to go back again.

People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to have the power to do much about it. Or we don't want them to exercise that power, if they were to have it.

I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to invite them in.

I do get a little pissed at people who write me and want me to do things, and spell my name wrong.

Finally, the president added, 'The American people are idealists, but they also want their leaders to be realistic...'

Would it be nice to win a film award one day? Yes. But the critics are going to have to wait till I'm ready. Right now, my gift is making big movies that audiences want to see.