Arfi Lamba Quotes

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

It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!

For the first time in my life, in my mid-20s, I started to question things. Had I been deceived? I thought I had been destined for something great - to be Whitney Houston or Jennifer Holliday or Phylicia Rashad. I started to realize that a lot of people think that, and it doesn't happen for almost everyone.

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

I actually don't pay a lot of attention to the movie 'industry'... I just do the work when I get it. I never considered anything I was in, or did, as a possible breakthrough for me. I have advised other actors not to expect anything. Expecting a 'breakthrough' is almost an automatic for sure 'let down' or heartbreak.

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

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

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

I don't think that I want to meet any of the icons. I don't think that anybody can quite live up to your expectations.

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

That was all and it was enough for me: fantasies are better left fantasies.

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.

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

I am disappointed when I don't win, because I want to believe I can win on every horse I ride, which is a ridiculous thing to think. Even if I'm on a horse that I have woken up thinking has no chance, by the time I've reached the course, I'll have convinced myself that it can win and will be disappointed if it doesn't.

I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.

Every day I realized I would not be a star.

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

Expectations are an evil thing.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

Life isn't what it's like in the movies.

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

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

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

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