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"Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough."
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"What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending."
"Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true."
"American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers."
"I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo."
"Expectation creates the reality."
"Not the action, but the expectation creates results."
"We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to."
"The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it."
"I think the media makes it tough to play in New York. There are so many papers and TV channels covering the Knicks and the expectations for the Knicks are so high."
"Expectations create and shape reality."
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"For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning."
"It is precisely as though I were possessed by some other spirit when I enter on a new task of acting, as though something within me presses a switch and my own consciousness merges into some other, greater, more vital being."
"It is my greatest joy to live a really good part, even though it imposes great strain. An artist is tired but proud when he has created a great work of art. So it is with the actor who really lives a great role and is proud of the part he played."
"I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor."
"My father died. It is still a deep regret to me this day that in choosing acting as my career I was forced to hurt him. He died too early to see I had done the right, the only thing."
"I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them."
"I was never a villain on the stage. I always played strong, sympathetic types. My first stage role with a speaking part, believe it or not, was as a priest. It wasn't until I began acting in films that the producers and directors saw me primarily as a bizarre villain."
"After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how I had done it, and how proud she was of her son Conrad."
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