Simon Helberg Quotes

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do, you don't for a long time.

He who awaits much can expect little.

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.

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

If you make your robot look exactly like Albert Einstein, then the robot better be as smart as Einstein, or its user is going to feel cheated.

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

The ideal man doesn't exist. A husband is easier to find.

It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.

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

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

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

Few things can make us feel crazier than expecting something from someone who has nothing to give.

When I first went to L.A., I really hated it. I had this preconceived idea of what it would be like. You think of Hollywood as this beautiful place, but everything looks rundown and old.

I see kids and young adults walking the streets of L.A. with this enormous sense of entitlement, who seem to think that if they are basically good people and pay their bills, then the world will be good back to them. And I think life isn't always like that.

Most of us...are naturally more sanguine and hopeful than logic would justify. We seem to be so constituted that in the absence of any facts to go upon we are happy and self-satisfied; so that the effect of experience is continually to contract our hopes and aspirations

I'm not by nature a cynical person. But sometimes your expectations are different from reality.

I think Valentine's Day is one of those holidays like New Year's where people develop such high expectations that even if it's a decent day, it doesn't live up, and it's disappointing.

People told me, 'You talk about Europe like it's Heaven. It's not Heaven.

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.

Dreams that are planned are called frustration.

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.

I don't want my work or me, as a person, to be held up as a paradigm because, as Richard Dawkins knows, if people hold you up too much, you're only ever going to disappoint them by being a human.

That's the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy tale is real, and more than that, you think you're entitled to live it. So far, though, it wasn't working out as planned.