Marlen Esparza Quotes

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

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

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

It's a terrible thing to have to tell your fans, who have waited like Detroit's have, that their team won't win it this year. But it's better than lying to them.

My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.

And I thought my loss my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic.

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?

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

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

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.

I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?

I feel like everything will be a letdown after 'You're The Worst.' It was such a great experience.

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.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation.

I'm actually not a particularly negative person, but I feel like most things are better when they're not actualized. The motivation that comes from wanting something is so much more driving of people than actually getting it.

Fulfillment is often more trouble than it is worth.

Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.

But here's the thing: I had this great job, and I would still feel terribly depressed. I would just be like, 'This isn't the sweet spot. I thought this would be it, and I don't feel happy.'

It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.

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