Quotes About Expectation

I like people who are devoted to me: men who know I'm the most fabulous thing in the world, and they just look at me with adoration. That's how my dad looked at my mom, and that's how I expected to be looked at.

Guys all want something beyond what they're being given - in every facet of life.

I don't want to fail the audience. I don't want to let them down.

I have a feeling that very soon I'm going to fail very, very big. I'm going to try something and everybody's going to be like, 'What was she thinking?'

Fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition, small disappointed hope.

If you write about a process you're about to go through, market research, and you go through it, and it doesn't echo what you've written about, you've failed.

In my head, if I don't get a shot at Chelsea, personally, I think I will have failed.

A product can turn bad, not the production. When you start a film, you feel it will be great. But sometimes, as it progresses, it fails somewhere. You can't blame anyone for that. You can blame only your own intelligence!

Every championship that Brazil participates, we have the responsibility to win - every time. So when we don't win, it's considered as a failure.

People now, especially with the Internet, are connected. They have an expectation of behaviour, of accountability, avoiding conflict and fair and just competition.

It's a little weird thinking I'm going to be an Atlanta Falcon - just saying that.

There's some bohemian part of me where the idea of falling back on something meant I expected to fail.

As a player, sometimes you expect something to happen every time the ball is in the box. Every time somebody falls down, you get nervous because you have to watch your back because anything can happen.

There are certain directors I have worked with who build up the scene and get you all excited, but when you actually do it, it falls below your expectation.

Everything can look good in theory and in practice it all falls apart.

The expectation that 'Trump as president' will be starkly different from 'Trump as candidate' is a false hope at best.

I don't know if fame will come.

The public was used to a Pauly Shore film coming out every year or two, you understand? So when that went away, the public lost familiarity with me.

Too often in this world, the things you root for - whether sports teams or spouses to recover from horrible diseases - don't quite pan out.

Teams are always hitting me in the gut, trying to grab me when I jump and stuff like that. But I expect it.

It's a responsibility when you have won as much as I have done, as much as the teams I have played for have done: then the fans are waiting for more.

People always complain that superhero movies end with a big fight scene where they're tearing up a city, and there's a portal opening up, and they have to close it... I wanted to have a climactic scene that subverted those familiar ideas.

There is no word for feeling nostalgic about the future, but that's what a parent's tears often are, a nostalgia for something that has not yet occurred. They are the pain of hope, the helplessness of hope, and finally, the surrender to hope.

I had tears when the first look from 'Hero' was released.