External Expectation Quotes

I always wanted to be an artist. I think I was just waiting on somebody to approve me and be like, "Oh, okay, you should be an artist," you know 'cause it wasn't until I stopped looking for approval that I could actually do it.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

The reality is I'm not this person with this driving 'get it done' attitude.

I don't want to be called a point guard, but I can't stop it.

People often expect me to be something other than what I am.

With me, somehow because I've been fighting outside the UFC, I still have to prove myself.

It's important to me what the viewers think.

The UFC wants me to fight. The people want me to fight. I don't want me to fight.

I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off.

More and more, people probably associate me in this world of comedy and these confident, brassy, big ladies, which I love, but my insides and who I feel like internally and the kind of work that I hope to continue doing feels very different from that.

At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.

One of the problems we had was trying to live up to this bubbly image. All the music was supposed to be bubbly. That's what people expected from us. But that was very limiting.

No book can teach you about yourself, no psychologist, none of the professors or philosophers. What they can teach you is what they think you are or what they think you should be.

With a revival, you're compared to somebody else.

We don't get our shoulds, we get our musts.

I feel this heavy weight to be a good ambassador for the sport.

But I guess the lesson is this: If you don't have confidence in yourself and think that you are worth hiring, or whatever it is, you can't expect anyone else to.

It's very strange to go from being completely secluded and doing your own work for yourself, to having an audience - and having an audience that's aware of what you do and expects you to do things that they like. It can make things difficult.

You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.