Quotes About Expectations

Everyone wants to grow up to be a faerie princess. Trust me, It's overrated

While I very much wanted to be in a relationship, I didn't want to be in the wrong one.

Keep your sense of self; don't get caught up in what people want you to be.

Everyone seems to want more form me. I am a thoroughly disappointing girl around. I shall wear a scarlet 'D' upon my bosom for all to see so that they will know not to raise their expectations.

I don't doubt at all that virtualization is useful in some areas. What I doubt rather strongly is that it will ever have the kind of impact that the people involved in virtualization want it to have.

I'm not sure the public knows what it wants.

Is it every man and woman's curse to want it all and only get ten percent of it? Or do we ask too much?

I don't ever try to anticipate my audience. I just write the songs I want to write, and hope people like 'em.

On the first day of school, my father told me I'd be the most popular girl and everyone would love me and want to be my friend. It wasn't so, but it gave me an enormous amount of confidence.

I remember feeling enormous pressure because I didn't want to be Shirley Temple. Shirley Temple was Shirley Temple, and I didn't ever feel like I could live up to that.

Remember,' she'd tell her staff, 'every customer wants to feel like a princess, and princesses are selfish and overbearing.

When I found out my mother wanted me to marry a rich man, I instantly didn't want any rich man.

Adaptation of books is never a success. When the author wants to make it, it's even worse.

If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up.

Fans want you to be something super-human, something that's impossible for any human being to be.

Your parents tell you that you can do anything that you want, but then you turn 20, and they're like "I think you should be a doctor, instead of a musician."

Don't ask for cash from sponsors, imagine what they want

And you know, the people who hate kids and don't want kids always end up having 50 of them.

For me, it was a lot of pressure to make another movie after 'Inglourious Basterds' because I didn't want to do something wrong. I wanted to have a beautiful project for another American movie.

I'm beginning to realize that things don't turn out the way you want them to. And sometimes, when they don't they can turn out just a little bit better.

Caine met Diana's disbelieving gaze and laughed aloud. "Why so gloomy? Doesn't every little girl want to grow up to be a queen?" "Princess," Diana said. "So, you got a promotion," Caine said.

I don't think you play for other people's expectations, you know. You don't go and become a lawyer because your mother or father want you to, you don't become a coach because somebody wants you to.

My Dad always told me that casting agencies are like artists picturing their paintings in their mind. They know what they want for a role and not to take it too seriously [if I dont get the part].

Restaurants want to be judged on their intentions - not the results.