Renee Elise Goldsberry Quotes

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

Every day I realized I would not be a star.

I arrived thinking I had these amazing looks and body and that I would straight away land the lead in a Yash Chopra film. Those fancy ideas got quashed soon enough.

At 30 I thought my life was over. I thought I'd have made something of myself by then, that life would somehow have made the necessary arrangements - but actually I had nothing.

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!

Chimere's not mine. That hurt 'cause I had attached myself to this guy, you know. This is my son. I'm looking at him, and I'm picturing I'm gonna be old, and he's gonna be - this is my son! It's not my son.

I remember coming out of college thinking, 'OK, I'm gonna get an agent, and I'm gonna make money. I'm gonna make millions of dollars.' And that never happened.

I wanted to be a trophy wife, and I was fine with that. I thought I had my life written out - what it was going to be, what kind of woman I was going to be - and none of it happened.

I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that I'd be transformed into a happy person, but it doesn't work that way.

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

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

I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.

You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting... you.

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.

What happens when your dream comes true - when the spotlight is on and then it moves away?

Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.

I'm not always going to keep waiting for a fairytale ending.

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

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

Expectations are an evil thing.

My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner.

To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life and this is a softness that ends in bitterness.

'The bigtime for you is just around the corner.' They told me that first in 1952 - boy, it's been a long corner. If I don't hit the bigtime in the next 25 or 30 years, I'm gonna pack in the music business and become a full-time gigolo.

I never found anyone who was good enough, who I could trust enough.

I came from a very loving home, had a happy life with no great aspirations, but going to the seminary changed me. There was a chunk of my childhood missing. Once I'd realised it wasn't for me, I still felt a tremendous pressure to continue for fear of letting everybody down.