Quotes About Expectations

Especially with girls, people always want to put them in little brackets.

It's what everyone is after, I mean they want success and when they get it it's an incredible pressure but what you have to do is try to keep the big picture in view.

People are often surprised by the fact that I laugh a lot, that I look like Lena Dunham, and that I don't want to make relationship dramas for the rest of my career.

I feel like pop stars can't be rock stars anymore because they have to be role models, and it takes the fun out of it for us, because we just want to have fun with art.

Nobody wants to be associated with failing to qualify for the World Cup finals. I cannot imagine the shame of it.

I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.

Almost all photographers have incurred large expenses in the pursuit of tiny audiences, finding that the wonder they'd hoped to share is something few want to receive.

People want you to be ordinary.

So many people are diverted to doing what people want photographed - fashion models, buildings, mountains - they get to thinking those photographs are good.

I'm in high heels, I'm wearing a fabulous dress, people want me to just smile and talk about my movie because I only have three minutes, and that's my job.

Our presidency is a cut above, we all want the president to be the absolutely finest person and best person that we could elect, but even at that, presidents are not supposed to be unapproachable.

Ultimately I'm making movies because of the producers and I don't want to disappoint my producer. It's always a tough balance to figure out how far I listen to them though.

Of many, imagined blessings it may be doubted whether he that wants or possesses them had more reason to be satisfied with his lot.

Please. She sighed. 'Can't a girl have high standards? I don't want an ordinary boy.

I don't think about what other people want from me.

I dress normal because I want people to treat me regular. And their brains explode. It's really fun.

People don't want you to be yourself, they just want you to be the person that they've decided you should be.

When I'm single, I don't focus. I focus on a guy if he's a boyfriend, but I don't focus on finding a boyfriend. They're never around when you want them.

It's really difficult to have a challenging male-driven show, and certain networks take off because they have their own mandate about what they want to do.

I have to be honest about one thing. When I want to America, no on asked me how I was. Everyone always asked me, "How much do you make?"

You know when there's someone new on the rise and there's too much hype? I didn't want that to be me.

I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.

You can't mess up. If you do, everyone wants to kill you.

I feel so selfish, because I want the best of both worlds. I want to keep the image I've worked so hard to create.