Disappointing Reality Quotes

I'm not as hopeful as I was when I was young.

There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

I had a beautiful childhood, so my adulthood has been really frustrating because it's - half the time it hasn't been as good as my childhood.

I arrived thinking I had these amazing looks and body and that I would straight away land the lead in a Yash Chopra film. Those fancy ideas got quashed soon enough.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.

When you've been living in hope for a long time as I have, suddenly you realize that certainty is far more desirable than hope.

At 30 I thought my life was over. I thought I'd have made something of myself by then, that life would somehow have made the necessary arrangements - but actually I had nothing.

My professional life has been a constant record of disillusion, and many things that seem wonderful to most men are the every-day commonplaces of my business.

Well, I don't ever get excited. I haven't been excited since I got a Chopper bicycle when I was about 12. Once you get older you realise there's always a catch to everything. So when I get, say, a commission to make a TV show, the catch is that you have to deliver something and then the sense of responsibility overwhelms the joy of the occasion.

How strange when an illusion dies. It's as though you've lost a child.

It seemed to me that you make magic real by making it a little prosaic, a little difficult and disappointing - never quite as glamorous as the other characters imagine.

The same architect who designed the Seattle fair's futuristic Science Center, with its lacy Gothic arches and spires, Minoru Yamasaki, was hired to design the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Seattle had promised fairgoers a glimpse of the world that would exist in 2001. That year eventually unfolded as something less than the dream we'd imagined.

I just have to accept that I won't ever be Al Green, which is a hard pill to swallow.

We all thought we'd have flying cars by now, but we don't.

When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

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?

I haven't signed as many films as I'd like to because there are no good roles, as disheartening as it is to say.

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.

You think you can do anything, and then you slowly learn how wrong you are.

Well, California used to be in the dream-making business, and unfortunately what's happened I think we're now in the dream-breaking business.

The attraction to me was that Harvard was such a big community, with interesting things to do and interesting people, but you realise when you're there that things are a lot narrower than you thought. It's a little bit of a let-down.

The world, unfortunately, rarely matches our hopes and consistently refuses to behave in a reasonable manner.

You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.