Stanley Kubrick Quotes

Crim has baggage: expectation, history, responsibility.

All the time, there was the weight of my community's expectations on my shoulders.

Everybody's expecting a lot from me.

It's a responsibility when you have won as much as I have done, as much as the teams I have played for have done: then the fans are waiting for more.

People look to me for guidance or responsibility. People put a lot of stuff on me as a symbol of something, which is nothing I opted into, but it's a responsibility I take seriously regardless.

I have a lot of people depending on me - even people I didn't know depended on me.

It's a great thing to have: that pressure everywhere you go, that responsibility. I think it's good to have it.

I feel like people expect a lot from me.

The whole damned country was depending on me.

It was not me failing that I was scared of. It was failing those people back home who believe in you. They only delivered the newspaper once a week where I lived in Oklahoma, and those people lived and died with the box score of my games.

It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there's an email, most of the time there's a letter, someone wants something of you.

On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.

I have been very fortunate, so much is expected of me.

I think the most dangerous word in the English language is 'should.' 'I should have done this.' Or 'I should do that.' 'Should' implies responsibility. It connotes demand. Which is just not the case. Life ebbs and flows.

There's a certain gravity in Stokes, due to the situations I have to handle.

Don't blame the boss. He has enough problems.

Everyone needs something from me.

Responsibility: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.

…it has fallen to you to do a dirty job which your predecessors ought to have done before you.

High rank is—like one's body—a source of great trouble.

I hope you keep them.

I'm not going to be their spear catcher for the rest of this year.

If you're the star of a show, the next one has to be as good or better, and if you're doing a series, if anything goes wrong, it's your fault. There's nobody else to blame.

I have a lot of responsibility.

When the audience expects you to do a good job, you become more choosy. It becomes a responsibility.