Quotes About Expectations

You get into the game and you know you're probably not going to be in there long. It's like, while I'm in here, I better not mess up. That's the completely wrong mentality to have. That works against how I play because how I play is 150 percent, going all out, going crazy.

When you are the lead, you feel that if you mess it up the whole film can fall around you.

The majority of people call or message me because they need something or they want something. You never know what people's intentions are.

If we are not careful, we will convey the message that investigators have to be perfect. Not true!

You give the guy an Image Award three years in a row and then turn on him like that? If that's the role they want to fulfill, they need to send a clearer message.

Women today are bombarded with so many messages, like we should have Naomi Campbell's body and Madeleine Albright's career.

I always felt like the only messaging I was hearing around faith was, you need to be perfect or you can leave.

I don't want to disappoint people. Especially with an icon like Britney. You don't want to be the one who messed it up.

The thing about marriage is that I believe in it, but don't believe in it. I think sometimes people put that ring and that paper and it messes up a good thing.

You can't be the best every game. Even Messi can have a bad game.

Unless I play like Lionel Messi or Cristiano Ronaldo, it'll be hard to give myself 100 out of 100.

People should know that I am Dybala, and I want to continue to be so. I understand the comparisons and expectations on me from the Argentines, but I don't want to be the new Messi or the Messi of the future.

My first year I scored 10 goals in La Liga. Then people started saying 'yeah, the new Messi.'

When Messi plays the ball, everybody expects many things from him. Sometimes it's too much because we have to let Messi breathe a bit.

If you are a big player you will always have a lot of pressure on you. It's the same for Eden, just as it is for Messi, Neymar and Cristiano Ronaldo.

Barack Obama is not black America's messiah.

There are certain songs that are sacred. People want to hear them just as they are in their head; they don't want you messing around with them. And then there are some other songs, if they've been around a long time in our set list, that I think we can take some creative liberties with.

When people start messing with their foreheads and can't lift their eyebrows, that's weird.

That's when you start messing up, when you put too much pressure on yourself. Just come into the game clear and just try to play hard.

I talk out of experience that relationships don't get messy; it's our heads that are messy. People's expectations and beliefs screw up relationships.

In the U.K. and Ireland, crowd-work is a big thing. It shows you how funny someone would be if you met them off-stage. Americans don't care if you're funny off-stage. They want to see the writing; they want to see the work you did.

It wasn't that I ever knew I'd be at the Met for 20 years, or 30 years, or 40 years, or anything like that.

We usually go to metal and rock festivals, and Glastonbury is not like that.

Metaphor matters because it creates expectations.