Yeah, I was expecting most of the COMMENTS about my appearance to be about me being fat, because I'm not a SKINNY girl by any means. But I wasn't expecting there to be that sort of WAVE of 'Wow - the new Chaser's HOT!'

Postwar America was a very buttoned-up nation. Radio shows were run by censors, PRESIDENTS wore HATS, LADIES wore girdles. We CAME straight out of the BLUE - nobody was expecting anything like Martin and Lewis. A sexy guy and a monkey is how some people saw us.

I don't CONCERN myself with thinking ahead to the finished product. I focus more specifically on what the character is experiencing. Once you RELIEVE yourself of the very ARBITRARY and always punishing PRESSURE of what an audience is expecting you to do, acting becomes a lot more fun and PURE.

I always make this joke that I know you were expecting to see the BIG skirts and the hoops. But that was a long time ago. ARTISTS aren't always SEEN as real people. If you start out as a TEENAGER, sometimes people want to keep you locked as that. But I'm a woman now.

I think a LOT of COMPOSERS GET into trouble just making up a plot and expecting an audience to FOLLOW that.

I go to the THEATRE expecting to have a good time. I want each play and performance to take me somewhere. NATURALLY, this doesn't ALWAYS happen.

I used to take PRIDE if my kids were PLAYING basketball, and I'd be there, and I wouldn't SAY ANYTHING. People were obviously expecting me to yell and scream at the ref and at them and everything. I wouldn't say anything.

The AUDIENCE that surprised us the most was DEFINITELY PARIS, when we played there LAST. They were just incredibly into us and we weren't expecting it at all.

I was ALMOST expecting the OLYMPICS to be the biggest thing EVER, but it wasn't. It was just another RACE.

I've learned through my own relationship with God that He's not expecting me to be perfect; He WANTS me to do my best to be in His will and take STEPS of faith as He LEADS me, through His Word and the promptings He speaks to my HEART.