Quotes About Expectation

I thought I would be an extra one time in a movie. And I would have been happy with that.

You never know what's coming round the corner. There's only one thing coming round the corner - more corners.

Pressure comes from fear. If you start thinking about the result or what might happen if you do something, that's the only time there's pressure.

I like that because the fans want to see onstage what they know so well from the big screen.

I'm a Brooklyn guy onstage, and I try to really feed my fans with the kind of material they expect from me.

In TV and movies, you get known for a certain thing, and that's what's expected. Onstage, people are more open to whatever character you create from one play to the next.

I wore Chuck Taylors for a couple shows, and the second show I wore the Chuck Taylors, that was the one and only time I fell onstage. I haven't really bit it onstage in high heels yet. It will happen. It's not about if, it's about when.

I hoped 'Starlet' would finally open doors for me and lead to a much bigger budgeted movie, but that didn't happen.

When 'night, Mother' opened, I did not know how long it would be before I would have another show on Broadway.

Doors opened for me because of who I am. But the downside is, there is way way too much expectation from me, much more than there would have been if I were from outside the film industry.

I believe in opening mail once a month, whether it needs it or not.

If I am honest with myself, a not-insignificant fraction of my enjoyment of any episode of 'Game of Thrones' is delivered in its opening moments. I sit down, settle in, and... BUM-bum, bah-dah-BUM-bum.

That period between finishing the film and opening night is agonising. That's part of why actors go from job to job - so they don't have to live with the anxiety in the interim.

I never expected 'Theen Maar' to have such a great opening. Pawan Kalyan is a huge star in Tollywood, but for me, it's just my second film.

Teams expect a lot from an opening batsman. It is a lot of responsibility.

There's no way in the world I would have thought about opening New York Fashion Week or walking in London.

You always worry before your movie opens that no one is going to come out.

The cynical part of the answer is that I expect to see a good deal more space opera, set far enough in the future as to be disconnected from contemporary issues.

If you are going to take me a to a musical, you'd better give me three songs that I'm gonna like. Nobody goes to the opera for the recitative. They go for the aria.

I had a rule - I didn't have a lot of rules - and one of them was we're going to operate from a mutual respect. I won't embarrass you, and I don't expect you to be embarrass me.

Most audiences are being attracted to '12 Strong' because of what they might expect to see from a movie like this, which is that the Americans arrive, they march into the camp, they take it over, and take charge. It's like, 'Everything's going to be fine now. We're here.' That's not how these guys operate. They're very different.

I thought I'd have this fantastic bust and everyone would look at me and think I was amazing. After the operation I did feel fantastic: I'd put a bra on and I had a cleavage.

Fans always have an opinion of their own. We only try to live up to their expectations.

Conscience is, in most men, an anticipation of the opinions of others.