Celia Johnson Quotes

I think once you enter the dating world and you realise it's nothing like those Disney movies you watched when you were a little girl, you just become more guarded.

It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.

I built you a sandcastle because you're a princess, but I tore it down because I'm a loser.

I was made to believe that my life was going to be fixed and it wasn't. I'm still the same loser who had flown to Los Angeles on my sister's frequent flier miles just six days before.

When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you.

If you're dating a man who you think might be "Mr. Right," if he a) got older, b) got a new job, or c) visited a psychiatrist, you are in for a nasty surprise. The cocoon-to-butterfly theory only works on cocoons and butterflies.

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

Love and used Subarus were two different things. Weren't they?

I walked away a little disheartened, thinking, 'Oh well. I came a long way to meet the Wizard of Oz, but I guess I won't. Such is life.

No matter how much you give a homeless person for tea... you never get that tea.

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.

You know how it is when you’re walking up the stairs, and you get to the top, and you think there’s one more step? I’m like that all the time.

I was like, what the hell is my life coming to? I'm a trained actor! I've done Shakespeare and here I am having farting contests with an imaginary dog!

instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.

You are so lame. You always disappoint me. It's kind of like our running joke but it's really not funny and I just want you to live up to the image of you I create.

Be prepared for negative responses sometimes. It doesn't have anything to do with you. It's just sometimes you're not the right look, or you're not really what they were envisioning.

I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I had lost exactly two weeks.

My headshot is a scratch and sniff, it smells like failure and onions.

Expectations are resentment waiting to happen.

We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn't, we start looking around for the real world.

When you come to expect humor of people, you will never get it.

Everything that happens is at least one dimension smaller than you've imagined it to be.

Anyone who is funny and doesn't take herself to seriously is attractive to me

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.

In most cases the only difference between depression and disappointment is your level of commitment.