Eddie Redmayne Quotes

When you've been living in hope for a long time as I have, suddenly you realize that certainty is far more desirable than hope.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

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

The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

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.

So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.

The idea of having dreams that don't come true is really terrifying.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

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.

I don't want to dream anymore, I want my life to be real!

It was always disappointing to see that what I could really master in terms of form boiled down to so little.

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.

Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.

Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.

I knew I wanted to play 'Dr Cox' really bad, which is always a huge mistake because as soon as you want something really bad, maybe you rip up a little bit.

Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

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

I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.

After hundreds of auditions and nothing, you're sitting home and wondering, 'What am I doing?'

If somebody sent me a good script, I would do it, and I mean that, but it never happens. Not once. I can't even point to an exception.

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.