Quotes About Expectation

I was so naive to think once you sign, it's all good, and you are a superstar.

It's inevitable now, because everyone is a superstar, even if they're just an average player, and maybe that was part of the process set in motion when I signed that contract in 1994.

It never occurs to me that acting with a superstar is something to worry about. I figure the bigger the better because more will be demanded of me.

I don't want to come into a situation like the NBA and have to develop for two or three years. When I come in, I want to be a superstar.

Being a superstar is a big responsibility.

I'm a superstar. And I move like a superstar in that Octagon, and I expect somebody to move like that when they signed that dotted line with me.

I'm kind of superstitious. If I miss a game or practice, I think I will play bad the next day.

When you go to jail, you are under the supervision of the state. You are housed with people who are criminals, so that becomes the expectation. People learn to become better criminals in jail and prison.

Sitting down for the actor read when you first get together, it's like the Last Supper because you don't know who will be there for the next read.

When I bump into Scotland supporters they are pretty positive. They just want a little bit of success. I don't think that's too much for them to ask.

I guess when you come from a supportive family they always expect the best of you.

She looked at me penetratingly. So I suppose you can figure out what happened next.

I've never fancied that footballer lifestyle. I suppose I could live that kind of flash life. People stereotype child actors and kind of expect you to go off the rails a bit, be a bit crazy, but that's not really happened yet. I've got a big family so that helps, and they live really close to the studios so it's just so much easier.

I forgive very easily, and I suppose, in the same way, I expect to be forgiven very easily as well. I grew up with that.

Critics can say what they like about the films, but very often, there's a certain expectation of documentaries that they're supposed to be like PowerPoint presentations. I see documentaries as movies. So when I see some critics writing that we could have done without the recreations altogether - well, perhaps.

I've been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity. All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you're not expecting it.

I went to these mixers, you know, where you're supposed to meet people. And sure enough, some guy asked me for my phone number. but at the end of the evening he gave it back.

They're there because, for some reason, they have the notion that they're supposed to be there.

There were no jewelry hidden. Walt wanted this atmosphere: They were supposed to live here, they've been outside somewhere, but they could come back at any minute and catch us.

If it had been what was supposed to happen, it would have happened.

The Oval Office symbolizes... the Constitution, the hopes and dreams, and I'm going to say democracy. And when you have a dress code in the Supreme Court and a dress code on the floor of the Senate, floor of the House, I think it's appropriate to have an expectation that there will be a dress code that respects the office of the President.

I was so frustrated after 2016 with the Republican Party. When we had the House, the presidency and the Senate, and we had a pretty fair Supreme Court, I really expected to see all of these things that Republicans have wanted for so long finally come to fruition, but then it all kind of fell flat on its face.

That is one good thing about this world... there are always sure to be more springs.

Race horses are like golfers, you're never sure how they're going to come out of the stalls. It's just - hopefully the horses come out of the race all right, just fit and ready to go again in the near future, but 3rd was good. It's paid for its hay.