Unjustified Expectations Quotes

Sometimes literary critics review the book they wanted you to write, not the book you wrote, and that's very irksome.

When I was playing good, nobody was saying I was playing good. When I was playing bad, I would be the first one on the front of the journal.

I just get so fed up with seeing the same things written about me. If I see the words 'ice queen' attached to me, I feel like banging my head against the wall. There's this perception that I can only be in a film if I have a glass of champagne in my hand and a stately home in the background.

There's this unbelievable bias and prejudice against quote-unquote good-looking people, that they can't be in pain or they can't have rough lives or be deep or interesting.

The critics slap labels on you and then expect you to talk inside their terms.

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope

German pretensions will not bear examination for a moment if judged by any rule of truth or justice.

Republicans let this happen over and over, and there is never anyone to stick up for them. They spend too much time defending themselves.

I think it's pretty crazy to say you've been typecast at the age of 20 before you've even really started getting going.

Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual. I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities.

There have been times I almost got a persecution complex. I felt like people wouldn't let me grow up. They always saw me as a smiling kid or goofy teenager, no matter how much I'd changed.

The mainstream media decided long ago that Hillary Clinton was going to be a fabulous global leader regardless of how she performed.

For me, there are worse things than being pigeonholed as the nice guy.

I've always been labeled... people think things are handed to me.

It is wrong for any person to ever judge someone in any situation saying, 'Well, why didn't you try to run? Why didn't you scream? Why didn't you try to do something?' That is so wrong and, frankly, offensive to even ask that question.

It's 5 P.M. at the office. Working fast, you've finished your tasks for the day and want to go home. But none of your colleagues have left yet, so you stay another hour or two, surfing the Web and reading your e-mails again, so you don't come off as a slacker. It's an unfortunate reality that efficiency often goes unrewarded in the workplace.

I go into meetings, and people have this preconceived notion of me that I didn't work hard to get where I am.

I'm a normal person, but people see me as this person who's not really real, almost like I don't have feelings. They think they can treat me any way they want to.

Someone with my name and my appearance comes with preconceived ideas attached. My mission is to erase as many preconceived ideas, barriers, and stereotypes as I can.

I hate it when everybody thinks I'm a... what's the word, a marauding mother! It's bigger than that.

Black and awkward is the worst, because black people are stereotyped as being anything but awkward in mainstream media... Black people are always portrayed to be cool or overly dramatic, anything but awkward.

Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them.

I think 'Ek Chhotisi Love Story' has really damaged me. People think they can compromise my reputation and get away with it.