Quotes About Expectations

I didn't imagine getting to 50, let alone still be playing music. When I was 18, I thought it'd all be over by the time I was 21.

You really have to be winning by the time you get to 20 these days.

I didn't think I was right for 'Cabaret'.

When my divorce came through, it was like being let out of a cage because I hadn't been true to myself before; I was being something that was expected of me.

Life for me has been exactly what I thought it would be, a cake, which I have eaten and had too.

The minute you start calculating and trying to figure out what a huge audience is going to think, you're going to fail.

I think that many Californians have been accustomed to, have normalized, that being good sometimes is good enough.

If you work at home, you're always on call in a way.

People are marked down for their age - once you get past 30, people look at you a bit funny. When you get to 35, the questions are all, 'When are you going to stop?' Calm down!

I got into Cambridge and it all went downhill.

My dream when I was at Barca was to play at Camp Nou and I did - just not wearing the shirt I'd expected when I was little.

I put more pressure on me than anyone else in Boston or on Team Canada.

I cancel going out if my hair doesn't look good.

As a female candidate, you always expect that some people will think you are not as capable of being an executive, or that you may be 'too emotional' for office. As an African-American woman, the bar can be even higher.

I just cannot take mediocrity. I just cannot take it on any level.

As if one could know the good a person is capable of, when one doesn't know the bad he might do.

You're only England captain for a very short space of time.

I don't know if I expected to be a captain of an All-Star team. It's pretty cool.

We had this idea, and I think a lot of people did going in, that you can make some short film and it's going to get industry attention and that's going to be your thing. And it was only later on at school that we realized that's very rare that a short film is going to capture the attention of anyone.

A top 100 single was never on the cards for me, really, like in my own head.

That's what brothers do. I expect a lot from him. We always work out together. We always do everything together. I know what he's capable of doing. He knows what I'm capable of doing. When it doesn't happen, we pull each other's cards.

I felt like they only cared about what I could do for them, not what they could do for me.

I really didn't want to enter the UFC in a fight that nobody really cared about or where people thought I was just going to whoop some guy.

As far as TV goes, of course there's pressure to look good. It's not something I've ever cared about too much.