Quotes About Expectation

I'm sure that people must say about me, on the screen, 'Good gracious, is Jeanette MacDonald going to take off her clothes - again?

I have a gut instinctive feeling that I will be as massive as Madonna, as massive as Michael Jackson... Whitney Houston, sure.

You wouldn't want to see the size of the check that I would write if it would for sure get the Dallas Cowboys a Super Bowl.

I was so sure 'Doli Saja Ke Rakhna' would do well, but when it didn't I lapsed into depression.

I thought I would come to Australia and learn to surf. Instead, I learned to walk.

I thought I was going to retire at 20, and I was going to be a surgeon.

I'm an actor - it's not brain surgery. If I do my job right, people won't ask for their money back.

And there have certainly been movies I wanted to be in and milestones I wanted to surpass that did not happen.

I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know.

I know what a full season is like in the big leagues. It's not going to be a surprise anymore.

I always knew I would be successful. So there was no element of surprise.

There has been no great surprise, no sudden revelation. I knew pretty much what I was getting into. What I've learned is that a restaurant can be as much of an art as you want it to be, but it has to be a successful business first.

Even though I'd been invited to the combine, I didn't test particularly well. That didn't really surprise me, I had I no expectation that I'd shock people with an insane 40 time. But I knew things weren't looking good when I started getting asked a lot of questions about the size of my hands.

I wouldn't say that I relax and enjoy anything. But I think my pessimism helps. I never really expect anything good to happen, so when it does, it's a nice surprise.

My parents themselves both went to university, and they very much expected me to be an intellectual and go through further education, and it's to kind of their surprise that I became an athlete.

The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.

It's great to surprise people. If you do the same thing all over again, which people expect you to do, they're going to get bored.

One of the difficult things of making a horror sequel in general is because the horror genre is so founded on surprise.

Every season is always a surprise.

I had been told by so many people that I was going to be nominated, that I should be nominated, that there wasn't any question about my being nominated. I don't think it was a surprise.

I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.

Surprise is not humor. I think that there can be a fine line there.

Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.

I want to make myself and the crowd happy by way of something different, and that makes things difficult. I'm never playing something that hasn't been released or no one has ever heard before because I care to deliver them what they were hoping to see from me. But also I play four or five songs that will definitely surprise them.