Charisma Carpenter Quotes

If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.

I'm not always going to keep waiting for a fairytale ending.

Sometimes your dreams come true, and it's a real drag.

The same as real life, there is no happily ever after.

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?

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

Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.

I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

I never promised you a rose garden.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

I got involved in music because I love everything about it, but now I'm in it you see the other side and it isn't much fun. Not as glamorous and enjoyable as you imagine.

Fame was not at all what it was cracked up to be, as far as I was concerned.

I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that people do; disappointed in the things that people construct. I want things to be better all the time.

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.

Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.

I think the Knight boys have a long history of disappointing their fathers.

There is so much heartbreak and letdown in this industry. You get your heart set on something, and then you're sitting by the phone for three weeks and it never rings.

I remember coming out of college thinking, 'OK, I'm gonna get an agent, and I'm gonna make money. I'm gonna make millions of dollars.' And that never happened.

I don't like false happy endings, and I don't think the real world is such a forgiving place.

Like every other girl or woman I had imagined and visualized a totally different picture of a married life in my head. But in reality it was nothing like it. Mazhar was never there whenever I needed him. Even when I was pregnant, he was not there to support me or be happy with me.

Manchester United was a sad experience. Things didn't go as I had hoped. I was disappointed, and it didn't help me to rise to the surface.