Dana Fox Quotes

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

I think that no relationship goes completely according to plan or the way you wished it had.

I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?

Life doesn't always give us what we are expecting.

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

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

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

Nothing is going the way it was supposed to.

Before it happened to me, I'd look at other people who had become really successful and think, 'What a dream. That must be absolutely everything they ever wanted.' When it does happen to you, you realize yes, it's incredible. But it also comes with a bit of a weird aftertaste.

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

I think the 20s are a vastly overrated decade. We promise kids that once they get out of school, life will begin and their dreams will come true. But then comes the struggle.

One naively thinks that by winning the Olympics, it's going to be this switch, and then your life is going to be perfect, and that's not reality.

If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.

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

I thought that when you have more success that you'd feel more buoyed or feel more confident. But in fact my brain has the gift of switching it around and saying, 'Now people are expecting something. Now you're really going to let people down.'

When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.

I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they are both pumping gas now.

I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.

Nothing keeps its promise.

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

I'd been told I was going to be the next big thing. But in actual fact, the complete opposite happened.

You can't have a perfect show every time.