Rashida Jones Quotes

Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.

I don't like when people expect too much, because then I'll only be disappointed if things don't work out.

I fear that the public at home expect too prompt results.

High expectations produce high frustrations.

Ever since I can remember, over-expectation and pressure have been my worst enemies.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Basically, I'm a people pleaser who has a knack for disappointing.

People have expectations of me but I'm not a magician.

I hate it when there's a good movie, someone overhypes it and I'm disappointed that I don't like it more.

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting... you.

I don't have to act for work anymore; I can act for passion. That's freeing, but it's also a prison of its own. When you can do anything you want, you're really responsible to do something great. And that's scary.

I don't think any of us grew up into the world we were hoping for or expecting.

Expectations are an evil thing.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

I don't want to be a figure of disappointment.

The man who was known as 'no drama Obama' during the campaign has given us nothing but depleting and infuriating drama since he arrived in office.

The people who voted for President Obama are just beginning to wake up to exactly what they brought in. The 'change' they envisioned is not the 'change' they have gotten.

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

Nothing is going the way it was supposed to.

I'm actually constantly a bit nervous because I never want to disappoint anyone, you know?

I looked up at my mom, and I was like, 'Well, Mom, uh, when you really think about it, C's aren't really that bad. C's are average.' And I've never seen my mom so upset, to this day. I just saw this flash of fire in her eyes, and she yelled, 'Average? You are never allowed to be average, because you look like me.'

If you meet your heroes, you're always going to be disappointed. Frederick Douglass was a great man, but would I want my daughter to marry him? Probably not. That doesn't mean that I don't think he's a great man.

A lot of times you can fall into the trap of expecting too much before things actually happen.

I think Valentine's Day is one of those holidays like New Year's where people develop such high expectations that even if it's a decent day, it doesn't live up, and it's disappointing.