Quotes About Expectation

Most of the musicals I go to I simply don't enjoy, so I don't go to them unless a number of people I trust say I have to.

I kind of feel like with a musical, there's so few original musicals that people just don't know what to expect.

It's either, like, 'Your album was the first jazz album I listened to,' or, like, 'My friend took me to this show, and I've never been to a jazz show before, but, man, I'm so happy I came. I can't wait to go home and see more.' And you can feel it in the crowd, too. You can see the groups of people that don't really know what to expect.

I was disappointed with 'My Friend Pinto.' Everyone put a lot of effort into it but the final product was something no one was ready for. The story was altered and a lot of scenes were edited. I got a lot of flak for my performance.

We're so used to getting everything we want now, my generation.

You don't really know how your film is going to turn out, but you can give it your best shot and hope the audience loves it. This has been my approach right from the beginning, and it's helped me a lot in my journey. All you can do is give the film your everything.

My motto has always been that you can't say, 'Oh, it won't happen to me.' You have to say, 'That can happen to me.' So always be aware that things can happen.

I began to think my time had come, as the saying is.

It's more fun to write stuff when you know someone's going to nail it.

I think in a way I was probably completely naive about what it takes to make something become a hit.

Coming from the inner city of Cleveland and growing up you never expected a street to be named after you or anything. It's a special honor.

When you hear of somebody named Goldberg, you think of a guy sitting behind a desk investing your money.

It's cool to be named a Shooting Star and, of course, a big honor. But as to what comes of that, I'm just going to see what comes my way.

Everybody forgets names and faces, and it's just inconsiderate to expect someone who isn't your boss or your sister-in-law to know exactly who you are.

I think something that really shocked me as a nanny were parents who sort of assumed the worst from the get-go. People who didn't accept the benefit of the doubt.

When I was starting out, I saw it as something that was definitely going to end. Every time I came to New York for fashion week or to interview someone, I was so sad going back home because I thought, 'These things don't get to last.' That's sort of the narrative of young success.

I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box.

One grows up thinking you will naturally be able to have children, and when it doesn't happen, it's a shock. But I just feel that it wasn't meant to be.

My mother used to always say to me, 'Do naught, get naught.' It's an adage that I hold by. If you don't do anything, you can't really expect anything.

As you progress along your path , instead of being worried or uncertain about your future , you will look forward to it with anticipation.

How was is that life never worked out the way it did in his head?

our journey toward truth is often a winding and convoluted path and what we find at the end is not always the truth we expected at the beginning of the journey.

I can definitely never run for president, that much is clear. I

Fill me in on the details of your life." "I thought you didn't give a shit." "It'll give me something to do while I wait for you to stab me to death.