I’m not a dreamer for, you know, ‘I want to go to the moon someday.’ I accomplished something when I was young, which was much more than I expected to. My results were much bigger than I ever dreamed about it.
Every sea-captain who sailed to the West Indies was expected to bring home a turtle on the return voyage for a feast to his expectant friends.
For me, stories were brothers, sisters and friends, filling the long hours between childhood and adolescence, holding up a true mirror in which I might find out who I was rather than a distorted reflection of who I was expected to become.
My mother and father always supported my passion for acting. I think they just kind of expected me to move to New York and become an actress and have all these adventures.
Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority and speak with awe and reverence to those who represent us?
I never expected that. I didn’t aim for that. All I wanted was to get some nice pictures of trains at night.
When I first arrived here, after spending years as a competitive fighter and training U.S. Marines in hand-to-hand combat, Hollywood is the last place I would have expected to find such blatant bias and discrimination.
Living and working in the centre of a city, one cannot but be affected by the sight of the homeless on the streets. They are almost an expected feature of life in a big city, and it is tempting to think there is little or nothing that can, or even should, be done about it. This is not so.
I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I expected, it is a land full of the most lovely scenery. There is every thing which can gratify the eye – high blue mountains, valleys of the sweetest pastoral look and romantic old ruins.
It’s a very tricky job we have as DPs, where you are expected to make something that really is an emotional art but also needs to be technically spot on. You’re often given a very small window of time to achieve it. People sometimes expect it to be even quicker and forget that there’s a schedule for a reason.
Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you’re expected to win.
Arizona’s forest fires are not waiting for April, and neither will we. That is why I am pushing for stepped up deployment for Hot Shot wildfire crews in March rather than April, in order to better prepare for the expected fires in northern Arizona.
When you’re going into a game, you’re not expected to hit a home run every game. You’re just doing everything proper with proper swings.
Even when I was doing three films a year, I would somehow find two weeks to spend time with my family apart from the regular weekend breaks. But ‘Bigg Boss’ took up more time than I had expected. On top of it, I also had to shoot for ‘Devadas.’
The Legislature of Lower Canada, consisting chiefly of Roman Catholics, could hardly be expected to support a church which they were taught to consider heretical, and in Upper Canada the scanty means at the disposal of the Government, precluded all hope.
It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.
I’m not going to worry about the Cure slipping down into the second division; it doesn’t bother me because I never expected to be in the first division anyway.
Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.
Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
When ‘Lost’ was over, we expected that there’d be some people who’d really like it and other people who wouldn’t. The Emmy nominations are an indication to us that there were a fair number of people who did like the way we concluded our story.
To whom much is given, much is expected. I do believe this. It’s embedded in me.
I feel like some of the best roles that I’ve gotten to play I could’ve never preconceived. These things happen to you in an unexpected fashion, so it’s hard to pre-imagine what that would be because some of the best opportunities I’ve had I could’ve never anticipated or expected.
It’s nice when people want your autograph, but it’s a little strange because I never expected it.
Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I’ve been speaking English since I could speak.
I used to sing as a kid, but it was quite squeaky. I think I was about 19 or 20, and we used to go to these jam sessions and open mics. I just got the courage to sing one day. I don’t think anyone expected it to sound like that.
