Quotes About Expectation

Whenever you receive or generate a lead, don't simply do backflips because someone is interested in your services.

The things we have most longed for do not happen; or if they do, it is never at the time nor under the circumstances when they could have made us happiest.

We are waiting not for a Godot but for another-doubtless very different-St. Benedict.

We are not waiting for a Godot, but for another-doubtless very different-St. Benedict.

I haven't needed anything big enough from you to justify being pleasant, and I doubt I ever will.

One of the difficulties you run into is that acting and celebrity are so closely intertwined. People make careers out of being charismatic personalities. It's one of those things that people have come to expect from actors. Personalities that don't change from role to role. I don't want it that way.

We are given to the cult of personality; when things go badly we look to some messiah to save us. If by chance we think we have found one, it will not be long before we destroy him.

If you expect me to buy something where all I can sense is carelessness, actually I think that is personally offensive.

I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came out.

I'm one of life's pessimists. I'm ready for everything to go wrong at any moment.

If everything always went perfectly, I would feel like, When is the ball going to drop? Because good things don't always last. Maybe I'm a pessimistic person. When something just seems too good, I can't believe it.

I get very confused about being called a comedian, because when you say 'I'm a comedian,' people expect you to crack a joke. Maybe I use laughter and humour to make people think. I don't know what you call that - a humourist? A satirist? A pessimistic comedian? I don't know. Satirists can be very dark.

If I say often enough that I'm going to be in 'King Kong,' I'm hoping that Peter Jackson will take the hint.

I was surprised that 'The Peter Serafinowicz Show' didn't get a second series. There are things like that that get stifled at birth and you wonder why they didn't happen.

I was petrified about 'I'm in You.' I couldn't wait to get it done to know whether it was good or not.

When fans of mine meet me, I can see the disappointment in their eyes. Every artist knows of this phenomenon.

There is a magical, unexplainable phenomenon that still occurs to this day where, however funny you think the material you've written is, as soon as you turn up to a gig to try it out, it becomes almost incoherent.

I'm expecting big things from our bowlers, from Peter Siddle, who plays the enforcer role, Stuart Clark, Mitchell Johnson and Brett Lee when he gets fit again. In batting, there's Phil Hughes, whose already done well for Australia and scored hundreds for Middlesex.

Coaching - get a guy like Phil Jackson, you expect the coaching to change right away and things to change right away. Ultimately, it takes a lot of time.

The Celtics were always going to pick me No. 1, but Philly didn't know that.

People in Philly are always late.

I will be better in Monte Carlo than I was in Phoenix. If I can't win maybe I will lead 50 laps.

I have a feeling when I'm 80 years old I'm going to get a phone call: There's going to be another Rocky.

One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.