Quotes About Expectation

Because I've got an AFI award, I feel there is a certain expectation when I walk into a room, you know, that 'That Deb Mailman must know something!' But I'm just as nervous with every experience. I still doubt whether or not I can pull something off. I still think, 'When is the review going to come along that says Deb Mailman's not very good?'

You can have the most emotional moment as an actor, ever, and many people would be like, 'Okay, cool. What's next?' You land one punch in a fight scene, and everyone is like, 'Yeah!'

Even if things are going well, I'm always thinking that I'm about to be hit with the dreaded gut punch and - psych! - I'll find out that it's all falling apart.

Never go for the punch line. There might be something funnier on the way.

My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.

You never know how things are going to turn out in a movie. You can imagine a scene one way, and it can turn out to be completely the polar opposite of what you expected. You just have to roll with the punches.

You are punished only when you are not performing as per expectation, and not because you belong to a particular religion, caste, or creed. Here, you fail because your vision is not right or you have not worked hard. That's why I believe we have true democracy in the film industry. How I wish the rest of the country was like the industry!

The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same.

The very first audition, you just go in and sing. The second one, they give you this sort of cheapy, Walmart-looking puppet - before they give you the $6,500 'Avenue Q' puppet.

The CD, it should be noted, was born out of greed. It was devised to prop up record sales on the expectation of people replenishing their record collections with CDs of albums they had already purchased.

The biggest shock was the first fight. I didn't know what to expect. I fought Fujita. At that time, he was one of the most dangerous PRIDE fighters. He was a complete beast and with 130 kilograms of pure muscle.

People come to my shows on purpose as opposed to coming to a 'comedy show.' Which was always my goal.

I left my cushy job as an engineer in New Delhi in 2008 to pursue acting in Mumbai. I figured roles will start pouring in as soon as I landed in the city, but my bubble burst quickly.

People pushing the idea that everyone can live to be 100 are perpetuating a myth that goes all the way back to the Bible.

I do expect a lot from myself, but it's also a balance of being... positive and also pushing yourself.

I don't think anyone in the 1990s, the late '90s, anticipated that the Putin they knew then would become the Putin we know now.

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.

Every day that goes by puts us closer to the day when Christ will return.

Committing to a particular goal publicly puts pressure on oneself. It becomes an enormous action-forcing mechanism and often helps you achieve more than you might have had you kept your goals to yourself.

Nobody puts more expectation on me than myself. That's just the heart of the competitor. That's how I was raised.

I have put a date as to when I want my baby... The date has been fixed. Like, as if that's going to happen according to the date we have fixed. But Chay seems to be certain that it will happen on the assigned date.

I hope I have a child with flair on my hands. That's all you can hope, right?

Sometimes, waiting for too long for the right film may fall flat.

That's my main flaw: I always think authority figures or my boss is going to think something I do is funny. And usually they don't.