Karla Crome Quotes

I guess there's something that's appealing to me about people that are aspirational-slash-deluded.

Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?

When you're young and have a dream, it's pretty simplistic. You don't think about or have any way of knowing everything it can be, and anticipate that.

And then the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.

Words can't describe how one would feel in that moment after doing a test for something you really want but in your heart you don't think you have a chance of getting.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

I'm an optimistic guy. I'm one of those big dreamers. I'm one of those kids with that annoying imagination.

Cynicism stems from disappointment. Cynical and faithless people were not always like that. They were filled with possibilities and hope as kids. But they tried and perhaps failed.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

I always entertain great hopes.

The greatest joys are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in what we hope for.

Hope is but the dream of those who wake.

It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!

Visions establish hope.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

There's a beauty in being unrealistic.

I went around in my teens and early 20s thinking that life was a con trick. I had managed to grow up believing in all sorts of romantic ideas about hard work and justice and truth, and it seemed the real world was much more complicated and shaded than I wanted to believe.

I've always been a dreamer.

When I was 20 and 30, my visions for what the world would be, all things were possible.

Hope is in some respects a thing more brilliant, more vivifying, than fruition. What we have looked forward to with eager and earnest aspiration is never in all respects equal to the picture we had formed of it. The very uncertainty enhances the enjoyment.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

The devastating scale and frequency of my disappointment was proof of how much I still expected and wanted from the world, of what high hopes I still had for it.

I was a dreamer, and I still am one.

I actually think I'm still quite childishly optimistic in a certain way, which is maybe why I find life quite shocking.

So long as one's just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon as one starts doing it one gets worn out and tired.