Quotes About Expectation

I'm a grounded lad, and I just look forward to see what's going to happen in the future.

The thing about having a very young mother who had you at 20 is that you expect that you're going to be old ladies together.

When you're on a Soyuz flight, you know that when you go to Russia, you're going to do X, Y, and Z. You have that plan already laid out.

I was really mad until the 23rd pick and I wasn't selected and my agent told me, 'If nobody selects you, you're going to the Lakers.' So I was hoping to not go in the first round of the draft.

You cannot expect so much freedom in a land of 1.3 billion people.

You know, when they called me about the role, I thought Knots Landing was a show about a houseboat with Andy Griffith!

I don't assume that I am going to be cast as a Glaswegian landlord.

I think sometimes when you go to a space you might like it, but the landlord is expecting something different from you. Our concept is very specific to us, so we need to have the freedom of doing it.

I hate meeting my favorite bands because then it just ruins it.

I don't like the process of meeting someone and you make a film and that's it. You think you're just getting started, and then it's over.

There is always a reverence issue, and I'm no different from any audience member that if someone's adapting a book or comic that I like, I really don't want them to screw it up.

I fully intend in all cases and in all ways at all times to fully comply with all laws. I would expect the same of any employee or member of DHS.

We think of our future as anticipated memories.

There are so many happy memories that will be made. You just have to live long enough to get to them.

When you discover that you are going to have a child, it stirs up memories of your own childhood.

I have a 'hope for the best, expect the worst' mentality.

I have this mentality that I have to be prepared for everything.

We have to go into every game with the same mentality as we have for Liverpool. It can be different playing against Burnley to Liverpool. I understand for the fans it's different but, for us, it can't be because the result we want is the same and nothing else.

You never know when your chance will come. You have to be mentally prepared and be in best shape possible.

I don't really think much of any songs I put out like I know... I think they're good, that's why I'm putting them out. But like I don't ever try to expect anything, so even with 'Caroline' or 'Red Mercedes,' I just put them out and hope for the best and people kind of gravitate towards them and I guess that's pretty cool and that's a blessing.

I do not give money for just mere hopes.

When someone on screen portrays a character that behaves in a way you don't expect, you're subverting ideas. So if there's a Venn diagram between why people are drawn to the characters I play, it may be that. But I'd like to think that the craft of acting and the choices I make as an actor are drawing people on their own merits.

Meryl Streep is at the apex of Hollywood, and it is ludicrous for anyone to think or for her to expect anyone to think that she was completely ignorant of Harvey Weinstein's serial predation of women.

The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way.