Quotes About Expectation

But it's often been the case, I've done so many countless small, independent films that really 3.2 people have seen, so you never know. You do it for the joy of the part and not necessarily expect anyone to see the final product.

People talk about me in 'Arcadia' and I think I was okay in it but I've given better performances in other productions that didn't have the same impact. But I knew 'Arcadia' was going to be an event and I wanted to be part of it.

I guess people expect or figure me to be a lot of different things.

You sort of feel when you are given an award, you feel like, well then you have got to do something to deserve having been given the award. It worked differently with me cause I didn't feel that I had done enough.

I feel like every night, when you see a really good production of 'Romeo and Juliet' or something, you should hope that it ends differently. That's why we watch our favorite movies again and again.

I don't expect that we're going to become the biggest craze. If it happened, I'd be really shocked. I think people will dig it, but there will be a sea of people who just don't get it.

I always knew I was going to be successful in some way with films. I don't know why. I had no particular talent, but I always knew I was going to be sitting in a dining room with Lucille Ball and at a cocktail party with Bette Davis.

'As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid' is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With my history in Fall Out Boy, there's some expectation that I'm going to be lyrically obtuse. But that song is a straight-faced satire of consumerism.

I only did 'Thor' because it was Kenneth Branagh directing, but I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would.

Stand-up's a lottery - you think it's funny but the audience can disagree.

I can assure you that 'Humraaz' will not disappoint.

You can meet me - and I won't disappoint. That's how I am.

I'm waiting for better scripts to come my way, especially because I'm aware that there are people who are waiting to see me come back; and I don't want to disappoint them.

People that have been interested in our work for awhile... those are the last people you want to disappoint.

No one sets out to make a bad movie or disappoint anybody.

The last thing we want to do is disappoint the fans.

If people like you, and you disappoint them, they get very hurt by it.

I hate to disappoint.

It seemed wrong to look forward to watching a man cut his arm off, and especially weird having dined at a carvery before going to the cinema, but Danny Boyle's '127 Hours' didn't disappoint.

I've had to learn that not everybody does things my way. But I do expect the absolute best of everyone around me, and I'm disappointed when people don't expect that of themselves.

I'm really disappointed at every event if I don't do less than what I wanted to do.

I'm disappointed that success hasn't been a Himalayan feeling.

When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.

If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.