Ben Domenech Quotes

I don't think that I want to meet any of the icons. I don't think that anybody can quite live up to your expectations.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

I don't think you should meet the people you most admire. I don't want reality to interfere with my image.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

I've always had a reluctance to meet my heroes.

Expectations are dangerous. I recommend not having any, if only to avoid disappointment.

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

Every day I realized I would not be a star.

Being Sexiest Woman Alive definitely didn't just open all the doors for me, which I thought it would. I thought, 'This is going to be huge for me!' And it really wasn't at all.

Life isn't what it's like in the movies.

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

You should never meet your heroes. Paul Newman... I was so excited about meeting him, but he turned up in shell suit bottoms, slippers, and a jumper. He was just so worn out and old, he wanted to go home.

Sometimes I think we know too much about our idols and that spoils the dream.

I think we all have experiences when we were young where we either had an interaction with someone we admired or you know, had a vision of how they were and found out that they weren't necessarily that and that it tends to be a big let down sometimes.

It just wasn't the fairy tale I had hoped for.

I think that if you idealise someone for so long, they can only disappoint and I wouldn't want to be disappointed by those people.

Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.

As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them.

Fame is a silly business. People who chase it are almost always going to be disappointed.

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

To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it.

I've always said that the experience of meeting an artist that you are in awe of and that you hope to create with one day is usually disappointing because you put them up on a pedestal, and then you're like, 'Wow, that's not a nice person.'

It's easy to idealize someone that you don't know.

Idolatry is really not good for anyone. Not even the idols.