William Shakespeare Quotes

I don't think any player lives up to his potential, because people out there put you so high on a pedestal, you'll never be as good as they expect.

I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.

A child's hope is that your father comes riding in on that white stallion and saves them. You can't make somebody love you the way you want them to love you, it's not a Leave it to Beaver type world. This isn't television. Life's a lot more cruel than that.

It's really easy to fall for someone on-set, but in the end you know, it's a representative and it's not really them.

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes... just be an illusion.

It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.

It's afterwards you realize that the feeling of happiness you had with a man didn't necessarily prove that you loved him.

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

First love is first love, first marriage is first marriage, disappointment is disappointment.

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

I thought I was loved.

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.

Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.

Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.

Ah love, let us be true to one another, which seems to lie before us like a land of dreams; so various, so beautiful, so new, hath really neither joy nor love nor life.

Every one knows about the young man who falls in love with the chorus-girl because she can kick his hat off, and his sister's friends can't or won't. But the youth who marries her, expecting that all her departures from convention will be as agile or as delightful to him as that, is still the classic example of folly.

A lot of disappointed people have been left standing on the street corner waiting for the bus marked Perfection.

Aiming for perfection causes frustration at best and paralysis at worst.

Men fell in love with Gilda, but they wake up with me.

Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be.

Among the many inconsistencies which folly produces or infirmity suffers in the human mind, there has often been observed a manifest and striking contrariety between the life of an author and his writings... Those whom the appearance of virtue or the evidence of genius has tempted to a nearer knowledge of the writer, in whose performances they may be found, have indeed had frequent reason to repent their curiosity.

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

I was always in search of a perfect game and I never got it.

The only way to keep a dream, any dream at all, to keep a dream perfect and rosy and intact and unsullied is never to live it out.

Was it that you wanted to pull my leg by transporting me to the frozen Himalayan heights of 'mahatmaship' and claiming for yourself absolution from having to follow my precepts?