Quotes About Anticipation

Flops are always disappointing, but 'High Fidelity' was devastating. Not that I thought it was going to make me a big star, but I did think it was going to run longer than a week and a half.

The great thing about 'Battlestar' was that it was basically 'Star Wars' but once a week, as opposed to waiting for three years for the movie to come out. I was a huge 'Battlestar' fan.

People like continuity, and the good old cliffhanger every week is something they enjoy. I enjoy it - I don't want to dip into just one episode when I turn on the TV.

For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it's where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week.

Critics should think about how the opening weekend audience might want to discover some surprises for themselves.

Sunday evenings often feel like the weekend is over before it's even begun.

When I was in Canada I shot a romantic comedy that I'm looking forward to having people see, it's called 'The Weekend.'

You never know what's going to happen the rest of the way. You can't predict. You don't know what Montreal is going to do to us this weekend, and you don't know what the Cubs are going to do to the Cardinals.

I saw an ad for an expensive car and got so excited about it, I called the dealer. 'How are those new cars?' I asked. 'They're fine,' he said. I thought he'd offer to let me drive it for a weekend. He didn't. I expected a salesman to call. No one did. I didn't buy the car.

Watching all the football over the weekend - and having to wait until Monday night to play - gets you ready, gets you firing.

Playing chess can make you a better poker player because it forces you to think several moves ahead. That kind of intense mental exercise develops a deeper level of thinking than is typically encountered when playing poker.

I've been a politician long enough to know that every year will find us living in a situation that one couldn't have imagined a year previously. Sometimes it's better than we imagined, sometimes it's not as good.

I am neither a sociologist nor a politician. All I can do is imagine for myself what the future will be like.

It's so funny when you're actually directing because things start popping that you don't expect to pop, and something that you think is going to pop, maybe doesn't quite have the impetus that you thought it might.

Jerry and I hoped that it would be a popular bestseller.

The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch.

In fact, the sense of positioning, anticipation, is something very natural. I always knew where the ball was going to drop.

We're not paying attention to the fact that Hillary Clinton is running in 2006. Everyone is looking to her for the future. It's the same with anybody else who's positioning themselves.

I put a lot of pressure on myself to do well and score more, and it will be a matter of time. Once you get back into that rhythm, you will start getting balls that drop to you in positions where it wasn't before. I do have that feeling that it is going to come soon.

You have to create a habit of finding the right positions and knowing where the ball's going to bounce to.

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

I don't know about the future; no one really does. I'm excited about the possibilities of what can happen, and I feel good about it.

There was a time when I read a script and I just got excited about the possibilities.

Looking towards the future excites me with the possibilities we have to improve, and I'm excited about what the future might bring.