Ryan Holmes Quotes

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

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

I hate it when there's a good movie, someone overhypes it and I'm disappointed that I don't like it more.

I don't like when people expect too much, because then I'll only be disappointed if things don't work out.

Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.

I fear that the public at home expect too prompt results.

I foolishly thought that if I just 'made it' then everything would be okay. And everything wasn't okay.

One promises much, to avoid giving little.

I don't want to be a figure of disappointment.

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

Nothing lives up to what you imagine. It changes, shifts, becomes something else.

People usually spend the first two months playing themselves up, not really being themselves. You waste those two months - and then they tell you, 'You're not who I was dating the first month!'

Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.

It's the fate of every executive. He gets in on promises and finds that things can't be fulfilled as he hoped.

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.

Things aren't always the fairy tale that you thought they were.

I think Valentine's Day is one of those holidays like New Year's where people develop such high expectations that even if it's a decent day, it doesn't live up, and it's disappointing.

Europeans distrust a Europe that overpromises and underdelivers.

I feel whenever my shows are too hyped, they usually don't work.

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

The dangerous thing about platform introductions is that they tend to create unrealistic expectations.

My biggest fault is that I give people too much credit. Then they let you down. I'm 99.9 per cent perfect - that's how I look at myself and, therefore, everybody else too.

Expectations are just disappointments waiting to happen.

Everyone's expecting you to be playing fantastic football, winning every game, and course it doesn't happen like that.

Dreams that are planned are called frustration.