Quotes About Expectation

I have not heard from President Barack. I've never gotten a phone call.

When I got the phone call that I was going to be on 'Drag Race' I thought I was going to win. I thought I was going to win 'Drag Race' before I was even cast. I'm not even being funny. I'm being serious.

My goal was to do anything that would lead to a job. I know that writing would not lead to a job. It's too fancy for me. My biggest goal was to be an office receptionist, answer phones. I didn't expect to go beyond that.

In my carjack I immediately knew not to resist. I put my hands up, I didn't make eye contact, I didn't speak with them, I didn't argue with them, and he searched me - I knew he was going to search me, because I was told they would probably search you for phones or keys. I think once you expect something it's not as scary.

People didn't object to me taking their photo. It was something everybody thought was their due: to be King for a Day, win the lottery and be photographed.

I always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there with my camera.

In a phrase: I always hope it keeps getting better.

In my own experience as a physician, I have not seen a miraculous healing, and I don't expect to see one.

One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet.

You wouldn't expect a cattle dealer to sit down at a grand piano and play it beautifully. That's my father.

When you lose, people don't understand why you play this way or don't pick that player.

Draft night for me - I watched it in my dorm in college. And it started off with just me and a friend, because I knew I probably wasn't going to get picked right away. I thought it was going to be a little later. But, you know, you watch the whole thing. You never know what might happen, so you gotta watch.

I obviously think I should always be picked. Every player thinks he's good enough to be playing every week.

It's a great opportunity to get picked top 10 in the draft. It's just a dream that I've always had.

When I was a kid I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up, but I did know what I didn't want to do. I didn't want to grow up, have 2.2 kids, get married, the whole white picket fence thing.

On draft day, I wasn't really nervous at all. Then you turn on the draft, the first five picks go by, and then you still thinking, 'Oh man, I don't know where I'm going to go.' It's really just, by the time draft hits, that's when you get nervous.

You can't really be picky when no one is offering you anything.

Can you picture yourself at the age 60 doing what you do now?

It was wonderful to play such a part, but I was disappointed with the picture.

Half of me is very excited and the other half is 'Haven't we seen this stuff before?' But I'm very impressed. I almost couldn't picture it when it was being put together. I couldn't picture it being in my hand, what it would look like.

I think all the stuff that happens before the pictures are taken is much more exciting.

When you're me, when you're R. Kelly, everybody wants a piece of you, and if you don't give 'em a piece they'll find a way to get a piece of you one way or the other.

I don't like listening to my music, not even new pieces. Generally, they sound pretty much like I expected them to sound, so it's what I wanted, and that's it.

Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.