Quotes About Expectations

My father wanted a boy. I was supposed to be called Albert. That was probably the beginning of why things got so complicated, because I wasn't a boy.

I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's sixth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do, but I don't know how to make it interesting.

I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious.

I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.

There's a lot to be said for doing what you're not supposed to do, and the rewards of doing what you're supposed to do are more subtle and take longer to become apparent, which maybe makes it less attractive. But your life is the blueprint you make after the building is built.

I'm not as cool as I'm supposed to be.

To admit you want to have a comeback means you have to admit you weren't what you were supposed to be. You dropped below your own standard.

The blue-collar is not supposed to read Horace, nor the farmer in his overalls Montale or Marvell. Nor, for that matter, is the politician expected to know by heart Gerard Manley Hopkins or Elizabeth Bishop. This is dumb as well as dangerous.

What, am I supposed to run around in a little red cape and save the world?

Everybody got away from what Pearl Jam are supposed to be.

Something happened culturally: No one is supposed to age past 45 - sartorially, cosmetically, attitudinally.

I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.

The North Sea was supposed to run out in the 1980s. Then in the 1990s. And now production is still on-line.

As women, we're supposed to bear the burden of raising our families and then also financially providing for them as well, and it's difficult when you're already starting off making less than the average.

There are so many things that you're supposed to conform to as an actress. Keep your mouth shut. Look pretty. Be a fashionista. I'm not stylish. I don't want to become this character.

Why are women always the ones who have to forgive? If you cheated on a man, he would be like, 'You're disgusting, and I want nothing to do with you.' But women, we're supposed to be like, 'He messed up. He made a mistake.'

The cardinal rule for any performer is that they should know themselves before they enter the spotlight, and I didn't. I was just Neil and I did what I was supposed to do. I was supposed to get married, so I got married. I was supposed to get a job, so I looked for work.

I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make.

In 'Summer and Smoke,' I was supposed to be a plain-Jane wallflower, and instead, I had all these costumes. I looked like a Barbie doll.

I think, growing up, I was seen as the perfect power forward. For a long time, I thought maybe I was supposed to be a basketball player.

I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.

I was supposed to be a mother like my mother, who didn't work.

When you grow up looking at Superman, Batman, and all those superheroes, you take it for granted that is what superheroes are supposed to be. So then, when I see art books at the library, and I'm seeing Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo and Rembrandt, I think that's what artists look like.

I think sometimes there's this perception that players are supposed to be robots.