All men prefer a false promise to a flat refusal.
Anyone who goes on 'The X Factor' to make big money will be in for a big shock.
I think I've had the fantasy of a ray-gun that could erase the world from the time I was a very little kid.
When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.
Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.
I have stopped expecting from films. What I expect never happens.
I really do think that putting expectations on a holiday is setting yourself up for failure.
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.
Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
When I was younger, coming up in this industry, I was 17, 18 years old. You couldn't tell me Beyonce wasn't my friend. You couldn't tell me that Janet Jackson wasn't my girl. You couldn't tell me that once I signed to my label that me and J.Lo weren't going to have tea in L.A.
I think when you are young, you are hoping that this person will be the right one. The one you are going to be in love with forever, but sometimes you want that so much, you create something that isn't really there.
Expectations destroy our peace of mind. They are future disappointments, planned out in advance.
When I was up in Washington state, I always thought, 'I'm going to go to Los Angeles where films are made and stories are told, and they're going to love me and welcome me with open arms.' But, there was no welcoming committee.
The only people who become disillusioned are people who have illusions.
When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
The expectation that 'Trump as president' will be starkly different from 'Trump as candidate' is a false hope at best.
Expectation is the mother of all frustration.
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
Nothing's ever real until it's real.
The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him.
Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result.
Illusions are bound to be shattered
Expectations are dangerous. I recommend not having any, if only to avoid disappointment.
Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.
