Quotes About Expectation

'Back In The Saddle' - I never realised what a good riff that was, or at least how much it satisfied me. And when we play it live, it comes across much better than I ever expected it to.

I never expected to earn money out of writing. In fact, the idea of getting published was too bourgeois. Then, in England, I realised that writing a book was something you could do without it being laughable.

I was quite excited, but I was sure I wouldn't win the race. I am a realist.

I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.

In my world, I don't believe in forever promises. I don't think it's realistic.

Coming back from doing 'The Hobbit,' you think 'Sherlock' is realistic, but of course, it's not that realistic.

I had a very realistic expectation of the level of success that it was possible to attain writing romance novels.

I think, at some point, I might have said it must be great to be as big as Elvis, but that wasn't a realistic dream.

I'm always going to give my fans a realistic expectation and let them know that if you think I'm never gonna make a mistake again, go find another YouTuber.

Sometimes I have to be pulled down to reality. I want everything to happen all at once.

Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

When I diagnose my depression now, I think it was partially about saying goodbye to these kids that I always expected to have but already knew that I wouldn't.

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

I don't fear what will happen, but you just get ahead of yourself, like, 'Oh my gosh, I wish it would happen now.'

I don't want fans mad at me, so I gotta give them what they expect and what they want.

We haven't even gotten a start date but we'll see what happens with that and that will be fun. I've gotten a couple of other things but I'm not really committing myself to anything yet.

I got a .30-30 for Christmas in the seventh grade. It wasn't what I asked for, by the way.

A lot of the guys that work for Warners and make these big films there all come from the same film school. Like Michael Bay, Zack Snyder, Tarsem Singh - they all went to Art Center in the College of Design. And there's a certain expectation when these guys graduate.

I spent 25 years clearly understanding that I'm not gonna meet Bono or the Edge. But then it happened at the Grammys when we were all backstage and I just about fell out of my shoes.

I thought Bentleys were supposed to be grandma cars.

I guess they just took it for granted that that was what I was interested in and let nature take its course.

When you're an actor, people just take it for granted that you're really confident and can get up in front a stage full of people and just speak to them.

You don't get this opportunity many times in life to compete against the best in the world every night. I certainly didn't expect to have 10 or 11 years of chances at it, so I don't want to take that for granted.

People can't take me for granted.