Josh Radnor Quotes

I intended to be famous by the time I was 16 and rich by the time I was 20. Curiously, it didn't pan out!

In life and in movies, it's a similar challenge, where you have expectations, and you end up in situations that are not meeting your expectations.

Basically, I'm a people pleaser who has a knack for disappointing.

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

It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

Every day I realized I would not be a star.

I don't think any of us grew up into the world we were hoping for or expecting.

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.

I felt like if I wasn't sharing myself physically, I would actually get a chance to see the downfalls of my partner. I would be able to minimize my intake of being disappointed.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

Not many people get that 'happily ever after' they want in life. There are disappointments every step of the way, no matter how hard one strives for the best.

I had this total obsession that I would have my first movie at the Empire when I was 24, so it was a big disappointment that it didn't happen.

I have stopped expecting from films. What I expect never happens.

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

I missed out on the World Cup twice and it did not kill me.

I'd been trying to do this since I was 15, sending out the demo tapes and doing all the things that everyone told me that I should be doing. But no deal - like, never.

There is so much heartbreak and letdown in this industry. You get your heart set on something, and then you're sitting by the phone for three weeks and it never rings.

I'm an actress but it's not fulfilling me in the way I thought it would.

There were many times eating ramen noodles and sitting on a friend's couch watching ESPN where I was like, 'This is not what I thought California was going to be like. I thought it was going to be pools and cocktails with umbrellas in them and Maseratis, but this ain't it.'

It's really difficult seeing your role model or your parent cry.

You should never meet your heroes.