Quotes About Expectations

I am particularly surprised that certain outlets look at pass rates irrespective of student population. As if inner city high school kids are to fare as well as college students.

When people meet me in person, they're usually surprised at how petite I am because there's this idea that because I'm black, I just look a certain way.

One of the things I learned in editing 'The Reagan Diaries' is to never say what Reagan would do, because he surprised people.

I think people are a little surprised sometimes at the level on which I actually talk. I don't talk like Caine. And every once in a while, somebody is surprised because I smoke and I drink. But I don't feel that is a contradiction.

When my films don't do well, I'm hurt and surprised. It's discouraging.

I am continually pleasantly surprised by how many people are showing up at shows and are younger than our first record.

I was very surprised to get a reading for 'Arrested Development' because it really seemed to be the opposite of that which I was known for doing.

If I'm still acting at 46, I'll be surprised.

I think people are often surprised, but I never defined myself as, 'I'm the business guy who has to supersede what my father has done.'

People might be surprised because I settled for an arranged marriage, but that's what's chosen for us.

When our diplomats go abroad, they are surprised that they can't do the things that they can do here.

I believe in good films and bad films. Box-office business and all is my husband's section. Sometimes I really get surprised when good films don't do well... Sometimes you are really shocked when an average film does very well.

People are surprised I do comedy! And I'm like, 'Guys, that's all I have been doing. For, like, forever.'

I think what's surprised me about the music industry is that you never know what's going to happen. I've had to teach myself that, because I love to know everything. I'm quite a control freak when it comes to stuff like that.

Comedy is surprises, so if you're intending to make somebody laugh and they don't laugh, that's funny.

When ideas are confronted with reality, there will always be surprises.

Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable.

If everybody had 100% record of hits and flops, there would have been no surprises. There's not one director with 100% success rate.

When I started publishing my work, one of the biggest surprises to me was the recurring question about my background and why I wasn't doing more stories about Asian-Americans.

Nothing, for the most part, surprises me anymore.

I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not going to get too many surprises if you only focus on the stuff that fits inside the box that you know.

There are so many surprises in my life; I don't take anything for granted. I enjoy every experience that comes; I don't think too far ahead.

I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.

For me, I was able to make that statement of faith early on when my career began, so there weren't really a lot of surprises. People around me knew where my husband Ray and I stood as far as my faith went.