Manny Montana Quotes

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Building outrageous expectations about the next big thing - be it a personal video chatting service or venue-based photo sharing app - can create all sorts of complications when things don't go as planned.

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

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

Nothing lives up to what you imagine. It changes, shifts, becomes something else.

My biggest fault is that I give people too much credit. Then they let you down. I'm 99.9 per cent perfect - that's how I look at myself and, therefore, everybody else too.

There's nothing worse than being disappointed in somebody.

That incredible bubble and high expectations built at festivals can work against a film.

I foolishly thought that if I just 'made it' then everything would be okay. And everything wasn't okay.

Then, when I'm in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it's all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.

I think once you enter the dating world and you realise it's nothing like those Disney movies you watched when you were a little girl, you just become more guarded.

That's the trouble with stories. People start out fantastic. You think they're extraordinary, but it turns out as the work goes along, they're just average with a good education.

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

The nice girl thinks she's giving up something to get something better in return. She gives up control over her own life. When the time comes for her to get what she expected, she winds up disappointed. In addition to being empty-handed, she's depleted.

Few things can make us feel crazier than expecting something from someone who has nothing to give.

The least sexy city is Los Angeles. And it poses as the most sexy. As you grow up, L.A. is being sold to you as home of the bikini-clad party girls. And then you get there, and it's full of very goal-oriented, yoga-obsessed careerists.

When I got into politics, it was a shock. People promise all sorts of things and then never deliver.

When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.

Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.

Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.

It's the fate of every executive. He gets in on promises and finds that things can't be fulfilled as he hoped.

In the dating game, the world is difficult because people don't communicate, or they communicate, but then their actions speak louder than words.

Things aren't always the fairy tale that you thought they were.

We have this idealized romanticism about how love might solve all of our problems, but then it doesn't.

I think one of the saving illusions of the film business is everything seems like it's about to happen. It's always about to happen. It's only looking back that you see the wasteland.