Sean Gunn Quotes

Things don't always work out as you want them to.

It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.

Nothing lives up to what you imagine. It changes, shifts, becomes something else.

Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?

It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!

Expectations are dangerous. I recommend not having any, if only to avoid disappointment.

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.

Life does not owe me a shred.

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

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.

If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.

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

I have no expectations. Not in a bad way, but I've learned that you can't plan ahead. I live day by day and see what happens.

I think expectations are sometimes dangerous things. I think the only thing you can be sure of is that it won't go to plan. I think that's the only thing that's definite.

I'm used to things not coming in the packages you expect.

Things don't always happen the way one wishes they would.

Trying to design the perfect plan is the perfect recipe for disappointment.

I really do think that putting expectations on a holiday is setting yourself up for failure.

To be honest, we have no control over what's going on with a movie, much less what people are going to think of it. Your whole life is wound up in it but you don't have control and you have to get used to being on that turbulent plane without trying to fly it. The less you think about all that the better.

The acceptance to Harvard was more of trophy than a real possibility to me. I would have been miserable.

If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end.

You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.

I've had a long line of failed television programs, pilots that were never picked up, series that didn't go very long. I've learned that there's really nothing you can do. If it's not in my control, I try not to worry about it.

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

You can't control everything that comes to you.