Kevin Smith Quotes

What I think is frustrating for Americans is that it feels like more was going to change with Obama.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

It's always bitterly disappointing to people to see how normally one can live.

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

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

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

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?

I think that if you idealise someone for so long, they can only disappoint and I wouldn't want to be disappointed by those people.

I don't want to dream anymore, I want my life to be real!

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

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.

Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.

I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

I felt my whole life was a facsimile of a life.

I would love it if anyone gave me the job of adapting 'The Great Gatsby,' but nobody ever does.

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

I have made a number of movies that I have never seen. It's not a matter of ego. It's a matter of being disappointed. It's really a shame. It's just as difficult to make a movie that no one cares about as to make a hit.

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

You should never meet your heroes. Paul Newman... I was so excited about meeting him, but he turned up in shell suit bottoms, slippers, and a jumper. He was just so worn out and old, he wanted to go home.

I don't think you should meet the people you most admire. I don't want reality to interfere with my image.

Young people have so many letdowns that people don't realize.