Sam Riley Quotes

I trained myself to not get my hopes up, because there were so many times in the room where you'd be like, 'This feels amazing, this is a hit!' And it never saw the light of day.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

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?

That's the trouble with stories. People start out fantastic. You think they're extraordinary, but it turns out as the work goes along, they're just average with a good education.

I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth - that I hadn't set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if 'The Big Trail' had been a success and launched me as a star.

I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.

Manchester United was a sad experience. Things didn't go as I had hoped. I was disappointed, and it didn't help me to rise to the surface.

We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.

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.

I have an enormous sense of having failed in life.

There used to be a cruel joke that said Brazil is the country of the future, and always will be; Obama is the Brazil of today's politicians. He has obviously achieved nothing.

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

Casting can be heartbreaking. Dealing with the disappointment is the hardest part.

My biggest loss was the Olympics. I just can't forget losing. I never will.

Nothing keeps its promise.

It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

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.

I've been telling people 'I'm going to go to California, and I'm going to be a big star' since the womb, but lately it was immediately followed by, 'Would you like soup or salad with that?'

Many feel discouraged because they have not measured up to their potential.

At a certain point, people in Panama thought that everything was going to be solved as soon as Noriega was gone. Of course, the disappointment was huge.

I know people who've had dreams unrealised due to circumstances.

Everyone I know, including myself, has missed or lost an audition.

Everybody has a good idea, but nothing goes as planned.