Quotes About Expectations

I wanted to be able to go shopping without people looking to see if I really was one of the world's 10 most beautiful women. I longed to be myself.

You ask anyone in college, how would you like your wife or girlfriend to be? No one wants the ugliest girl in the world who no one wants to look at. Out of 100 people, all 100 will say that I want the most beautiful woman in the world.

The most difficult thing with a new shot is if you go two or three games without making it, or you struggle, and people start saying, 'You can't shoot 3s,' or, 'Why do you shoot 3s?'

The first and perhaps most important thing to realize about being happier in life is to stop trying to be so happy in life.

The most important thing to me is facing people head on and focusing on not disappointing the public.

I graduated from Academy of Fashion and Costume Design in Rome. At first, I thought I was going to be a costume designer for films, and then I ended up working in fashion - not as a designer, but mostly as a model.

Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.

I don't think 'Motherhood' is a map for women. I would never say that it's a template for every woman in response to her biology.

I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.

A lot of women feel like they should be enjoying motherhood, they should be fulfilled and shouldn't be thinking, 'I wish I didn't have to do this.'

I don't think enough women are being honest about motherhood.

'Workin' Moms,' obviously, is about mothers who also work. But we're also expected to remain graceful when we return to work, and that's just impossible.

The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member.

How can there be so many mothers in the world but so little sense of what it might be to become one?

Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.

Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.

As an actress, as you get older, you find yourself in a situation where you play mothers or women who are hoping to be mothers.

I'm eulogised by a lot of men, but they wouldn't take me home to meet their mothers.

We're contemptuous of 'distracted' working mothers. We're contemptuous of 'selfish' rich mothers. We're contemptuous of mothers who have no choice but to work, but also of mothers who don't need to work and still fail to fulfill an impossible ideal of selfless motherhood. You don't have to look very hard to see the common denominator.

Like all working mothers, I have guilt. Because I have to leave for work, I feel guilty about leaving for anything else.

I really didn't feel that my motion picture career was going the way I wanted it to go.

I've been surprised at how motivated a lot of people are that you wouldn't traditionally think would be that kind of a motivated student.

I'm probably not motivated by a lot of things that people think I am.

When we play a team I know we're going to blow out or anything like that, I'm not as motivated.