Quotes About Expectation

I mean, I'm always optimistic about most things I do and never bank my hopes on anything, but I got what 'Take Me Out' was right from the word go.

I am always optimistic.

I assume that the worst will happen. So I'm never optimistic.

I wait for options, hoping that a space for a pass will appear at the last moment.

After watching me in a larger-than-life character in 'Magadheera,' the audiences didn't accept me as a college-going boy in 'Orange.'

Great cataclysmic things can go by and neither the orchestra nor the conductor are under the delusion that whether they make this or that gesture is going to be the deciding factor in how it comes out.

A lot of places we go, when they see the organ coming in, they're expecting rock and roll, but after they hear us play they like it. To me, guitar cuts through-it carries more than organ. But organ has got more guts.

I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy prince never came.

What I wanted originally was six kids.

'I'm a Celebrity' was so much harder than I originally thought. Until you are in the jungle, you don't really know what you're in for.

There is no worse situation to be in than Oscar night. Not knowing whether you've won is completely draining.

If you think you're going to be up for an Oscar, you schedule your moviemaking.

People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar - I can assure you you don't.

I didn't think I was gonna be playing on the Oscars or anything.

Waiting is a big part of life. We don't like to admit that, especially our generation; we don't like to wait on stuff. We want stuff immediately.

I don't take myself too seriously, but I take the job very seriously, and I expect people to do the job that they're given because this is about all our people, young and old, and it's an enormous responsibility.

I don't look further than next year because in our world, anything can happen.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

We expect nothing but greatness from ourselves.

Besides, there were 50,000 fans or more there, and they wanted to see the best you've got. There was an obligation to the people, as well as to ourselves, to go all out.

When you go to an audition, don't hang on to it because no matter how well you feel it went or how badly, you just never know what the outcome is going to be.

I never thought I was going to lose the first title fight. I was literally obsessed with the outcome only, and I couldn't imagine any other way possible. I thought I was going to explode and die before I lost. But I lost.

As a director, I was apprehensive about the outcome of 'Kick.' As it scored well, it is my duty to get above that expectation.

Hopefully we'll figure out how to get 'Iron Man 2' going, and I'll be involved with that. You have got to outdo what you did before. So, if the last one took two years, we would need at least that to do what we are talking about or, at least, thinking about.