Roy Hobbs: My life didn't turn out the way I expected.
I consider myself a reasonable man. As such, I tend to expect others to behave with a modicum of reason and common sense. Especially those with power.
I don't expect to try to get people to like everything I do. I want them to respect what I do.
I think I have a certain respect for people, you know. And I guess a lot of times I expect that respect to go both ways.
There are certain expectations that are put on you as a child actor, but mainly it's just turn up and say your lines with a lot of energy and a cute smile.
In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.
What's hard, it seems, is living up to the expectations Democracy imposes upon those who would participate in society.
I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.
So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and carefully study the reactions and mannerisms of a friend who was expecting.
If you get involved in music expecting to make a living out of it, then you've picked the wrong thing to do. That shouldn't really be in your mind.
We didn't really expect to achieve anything outside of the UK, and it just went crazy. It's just crazy that people know our music. We're just humbled by it.
Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.
Because videogames are so inherently influenced by movies, to take a movie and literally create a videogame out of it, you're immediately setting limitations and expectations on what that game can be.
I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.
People that haven't seen us yet are shocked because they think that Alice Cooper must be a female folksinger. They don't expect the whole thing.
I'm a Brooklyn guy onstage, and I try to really feed my fans with the kind of material they expect from me.
I don't expect the press to say thank you for the efforts that I make.
A vicious circle develops in which the people around you expect you to be there for them all the time and comply with their wishes.
When millions of Americans are tightening their belts, folks have the right to expect their elected officials to do the same.
An honest man speaks truth, don't expect him to speak sweet.
They say anything can happen in a short series. I just didn't expect it to be that short.
