Quotes About Expectations

I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.

A lady of a certain age must keep her top on. That's what I feel.

The kind of career that I want is not easy as a lady to manifest, because everyone wants a lady to be likable.

You men make up these rules, and now you get mad because I'm telling you what a real woman wants. She wants you to treat her like a lady if you want her to sit up there and put on all the lingerie!

A lot of times, when you're the leading lady, you get to sing heartwarming songs and that's it, and people don't get a sense of who you truly are.

We're never gonna have a nice lady run for president.

My parents, or Asian parents in general, they're like, 'You should be a doctor, a lawyer, or a banker' - all that's laid out. As a kid that's what I bought into, which is why I ended up going the corporate route initially.

Dr. Buss set the bar high for the Lakers.

In the state of Kentucky, all they know is Kentucky basketball. It's the same thing in L.A. They love the Lakers and they expect nothing less but championships.

If you're meeting someone for the first time after three hours of hair, makeup, and styling, you've already set the bar too high.

I started doing flats because women would always apologize for wearing them when they met me, as if they had to be in heels when meeting a shoe designer.

I did a movie a few years back, 'Medicine for Melancholy.' People will come up to me after a set and say, 'I really love that movie. When are you going to do another one?' Or 'I loved you on 'The Daily Show.' Why did you leave?' It's kind of the same as saying, 'I loved you in high school. You should have never left.'

I had moved across the country, taken internships, networked, worked long hours, and called in favors to get there. And I had done it. I was working in Hollywood. So imagine the melancholy I found myself in when I realized that I didn't love casting the way that I always thought I would.

The word that I constantly hear out of women is 'fear.' It's almost like a background melody. Women have excellent degrees and experience, but we are afraid we aren't good enough because we have such high expectations.

Not every movie has to serve as every audience member's need for completion.

You can't be the perfect member of Congress and the perfect mother 100 percent of the time. And probably, you'd be a pretty annoying person if you were.

If you're a member of my family, whether immediate or extended, and you want to see my show, don't.

My earliest memories are of my father explaining to me the American Dream and how he expected me to do better than he did.

Women take much the biggest proportion of work in terms of home and childcare. Societally we need a culture change. It's still the case that expectations are different for men and women.

The pressure in Brazil is a little complicated, a little menacing.

Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly.

Sometimes it feels like our mental health is directly linked to our performance on the pitch, and while I understand that it is of course a factor - it's not the whole picture.

Historically, and even now, women have been asked to give up on their dreams way more than men, mostly - because it's sort of like you're supposed to once you become a wife and mother. That's a generalization; that's what the mentality has been.

When you win something, if you don't have that mentality that comes from a tradition of always winning, the built-in demands of a big club, there's always a small dip.