Elizabeth Taylor Quotes

Sometimes your dreams come true, and it's a real drag.

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

I probably revisit in my work the moment at which I realised that dreams couldn't be reality.

I don't like being disappointed by somebody I trust. Fortunately, it rarely happens.

You expect certain things. You build up in your mind how it's supposed to go down. When you get a record deal, you think you're supposed to get X, Y, and Z. It doesn't happen like that. You're like 'Oh, this isn't as exciting as I thought it was going to be.'

I'm most scared of failing, of disappointing people.

I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.

I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth - that I hadn't set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if 'The Big Trail' had been a success and launched me as a star.

I reappointed him and he disappointed me.

It's so disappointing to put in your best, hard work and then find the film flopping at the box office for no fault of yours.

I don't know whether it was my fault or someone else's fault, but I was extremely disappointed that my first film was a total washout.

I think the moment you're convinced something's going to be good is the moment that it's not going to be.

I absolutely feel that Rage failed.

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

People have let me down in the past. I've loved something, and it's become a disgrace. I'd rather start again.

Disillusion is the last illusion.

I always thought if you worked hard enough and tried hard enough, things would work out. I was wrong.

Sometimes. It was a good escape. Until, you know, it wasn‟t.

I obviously hoped that everything that I found would make a difference. It ended up being way behind my wildest dreams.

I thought my mountain was coming this morning. It was near to speaking when suddenly it shifted, sulked, and returned to smallness. It has eluded me again and sits there, puny and dull. Why?

I always see those of whom I have heard well with a slight disappointment. They are so much better than the great herd, and yet the heavens are not shivered into diamonds over their heads.

Antisappointment. Anticipation colliding head-on with the certainty of its own doom.

No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.

There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning.

Every time I learn the truth about something, I’m disappointed