Quotes About Expectation

St. Michaels Mount is a favourite place of mine; people will walk across to the Mount all day and assume they will be able to walk home. The spectacle of hundreds of people realising that the path they walked over on is disappearing under several feet of water is very amusing.

I used to dream of being normal. For me, if Kirk Douglas walked into the house, that was normal.

In Chicago, I walked in knowing what the dancers were going to need.

There's been times where I sold the place out, and I walked in and the guy's like, 'Uh, ID?' 'No, you can't ID me, man. I just sold this place out.' People are just doing their jobs, but I think if you're working the door at a venue where there's a headliner, you should at least be like, 'OK, this is the dude.'

I wish I'd walked out of 'The Tourist' with Angelina Jolie and Johnny Depp. I said to the missus after two minutes, 'He's her husband.' An hour and a half's worth of nonsense later, the big twist at the end is... he's her husband.

You have to find some way to not become a cynical or negative person, a person who keeps walking around and opening your eyes in the outside world but inside you close down, a person who stops expecting tomorrow to be better than today.

I could be walking down the street one minute and get a handshake and then get spat on the next. I'm never sure whether to wear gloves or a helmet.

You can always tell in a movie when they are setting you up for something. If someone leaves an important object on the table and walks away, the camera will have some way of indicating that to you.

I tell people all the time that producers, writers, and directors really don't know what they want until it walks into the room - you have to show them what they want. Everyone is rooting for you when you walk into the room. Everyone wants you to be good because it means their day is over!

People are used to getting a lot of information quickly, and they're used to being quite empowered as consumers, and they go to governments expecting a similar treatment; they want to find data and they want to influence events quickly, and yet they come into this brick wall.

When you're young on the bench you can't show yourself really.

If for half a year you only get 10 minutes to play from the bench, then you have no rhythm.

I'm afraid if I start to enjoy life, the rug will be yanked out from beneath me.

I feel the best way to respect my audience is to not give them what they expect from me... 'cause it's fun that way.

I bet I would make a really good daughter-in-law.

I only do few films, so when one comes out, it is a big deal for me.

I expect 'Paramasivan' to be a big hit because I have given the screenplay a fresh approach.

You never know if its gonna be a big hit, you hope for the best.

Big movie or small movie, you make this thing, and then you show it to people, and you just hope they like it. You hope it works.

When I go to a live show, to me that's work... all those people in that crowd paid money to see us, so that's a big responsibility.

As the game gets bigger for the fans it gets bigger for the players.

I'm used to the egos in the 1960s, '70s and '80s where people just expected massive success and thought it was their birth right to be successful.

You never know what state you're going to be in after giving birth.

I always knew that good stuff would come along when I was older. So when I was 18, I longed to be 30; when I was 30, I longed to be 50. I've always looked forward to my next birthday.