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Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.

You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.

I have very high expectations of myself. I'm a very competitive person but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be and if that means that I'm eventually better than everyone else then so be it.

Don't be limited by the expectations of others. You can always be better and do more.

Let your performance do the thinking.

So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

I think my expectations for myself are much more severe and much more direct. You can't work on a film for six years without being your own toughest critic. So you can't really be distracted by the expectations based on your previous performance.

I have a very high expectation for everything I do. And when I go out and compete, I expect myself to make every play.

The first thing you have to do is take everything with a grain of salt. You know, you've gotta just look at the goal, focus on what you gotta do and take one step at a time as a whole, as every performance being that's it, that's one objective, and let's just move forward and work on that.