Quotes About Expectations

I actually believed if I behaved myself and if I made straight A's and if I was good enough, I could save my dad's life. And every single time he had a heart attack, I knew what I had done that caused it.

Some choreographers have been cautious about working with me.

I feel the only way you feel the pressure is when you think it is an important match or series. If you feel that every time you go out into the middle the match is important then pressure ceases to exit.

There's this culture where we celebrate people snapping back into shape a week after the birth, but I don't want to be one of those people - I just want to enjoy Arabella.

I think actually it's kind of sad because something I looked forward to just getting to the NFL growing up was just being able to have more fun, the rules loosen up, being able to celebrate.

The same way that I know that I'll never do a movie as good or as celebrated as 'Forrest Gump,' I know that I'll never do a movie as bad as 'Bonfire of the Vanities.'

It is ok for celebrities to not look good always.

As an athlete, I was never really comfortable with being a celebrity.

I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought.

Celebrity never really served me that well; it serves other people well.

I didn't read the book on how to be a well-adjusted celebrity.

People see the celebrity lifestyle and assume everything is perfect, but we're just like everyone else.

There is no good side to celebrity.

It isn't easy being a celebrity cricketer in India.

I remember being 24 in Los Angeles. And up until that moment, when my mom would call my cell phone and it would ring, I would be flushed with some sort of excitement that we all have - a little dopamine rush, when my phone rings - and I'd look down, and it would say, 'Mom.' It used to feel like a job to pick that up.

I was really scared coming to Celtic because I have heard so much about U.K. football being tough; the fans expect so much.

It's one of the central problems of American culture: telling you if you're younger, more beautiful, more famous, whatever, that then you'll be happy.

I feel Arjun is one of the central characters of 'Mahabharata' and people have lots of expectations from me when I started working on the show.

My fans like a certain quality and a certain level of music. Once I give it to them, they seem pretty happy.

Before I became the No.1 DJ in the world, people came to see me - they knew my sound. They were straight-up fans. After that, you have to deal with the pressure and knowing at a certain point you're not going to be No.1.

You know, we have our own audience, and it's not like - they just know we're not going to do certain things.

I think that women are raised to believe that they're supposed to want certain things, and so you feel like you're supposed to apologize when you don't want those things.

I know people expect a lot from me and want to see certain things when I play, but it's not really any pressure for me.

I put a lot of pressure on myself to play a certain way.