Danny Bonaduce Quotes

There's a million leading men on TV today that are perfectly great, and their jobs are fantastic. But it's not as interesting to me when every fight they win, every case they solve, every girl they get.

You'd die very sad if you tried to make everyone in the world happy, you know what I mean? You can't; no one can.

I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them as the way human life and relationships could be, in some sort of weird, ideal world, but they never are. So you're constantly being shown this garbage and you can't get there.

Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.

When people complain of life, it is almost always because they have asked impossible things of it.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

I had dreams, but I didn't have the sense that they would necessarily work out. They seemed very far-fetched.

My dreams are all follies.

Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.

People of this world are deluded. They're always longing for something - always, in a word, seeking.

You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.

Most people imagine that resolving particular problems will make them happy. If only one had more money, or love, or success, then life would feel manageable. It can be devastating to realize the falseness of such tempered optimism.

I can't make everybody happy.

There's no point daydreaming about what you want to play, because there might never be a script with that part in.

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

Dreams that are planned are called frustration.

They suffered from the terrible delusion that something could be done. They seemed prepared to make the world the way they wanted it or die in the attempt, and the trouble with dying in the attempt was that you died in the attempt.

All my movies are about people with some ideology, but guess what? It never works out.

There's no point considering something which is very unrealistic.

I feel like what I'm after is not easy for me to find, and to want it to be easy... it would be absurd for me to have that ambition.

My problem is I'm not talented enough to do everything, but I want to do everything. I'm like, 'Oh God, I wish I could dance! Oh God, I wish I could rap!' I can't be a rapper, and I'm sure as hell not going to be able to dance for a living, but I want to do it all, you know?

With one or two children at home, I feel that parents concentrate too much on them and hence children lose touch with reality. They get whatever they desire and fail to understand that in real life you may or may not get what you wish for.

When I was a child, I wanted to grow taller than a certain standard set by our teacher. When I expressed that desire, my teacher asked me if I thought of myself as a Chiranjeevi. Since then, I have heard a number of people liken the very name 'Chiranjeevi' to impossible achievement.

Don't try to chase something that you want to be there but isn't actually there.

When I was young and, supposedly so beautiful, I had a tsunami of men crashing in on me and some really, really nice guys wanted to marry me. But I only ever wanted to marry for love. And I did. And it worked... for the first 20 minutes.