Clive Anderson Quotes

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

I went through a huge transition in my life where everything and everyone I knew and trusted didn't turn out to be that way.

Films are tricky because for years you're getting told you're about to make it and you're about to be busy for four or six months or you're about to be on tour for press. But these things tend not to happen, and meanwhile you've said 'no' to many things 'cause you thought you were going to be busy, for years, for years this happens.

Being a Mets fan is like lending someone a lot of money and you just know that you'll never get paid back.

Too often in this world, the things you root for - whether sports teams or spouses to recover from horrible diseases - don't quite pan out.

Next year he did not come for her. She waited in a new frock because the old one simply would not meet, but he never came. "Perhaps he is ill," Michael said. "You know he is never ill." Michael came close to her and whispered, with a shiver, "Perhaps there is no such person, Wendy!" and then Wendy would have cried if Michael had not been crying.

Sometimes, things don't work out the way we want them to.

Things always seem to end before they start

Really, I'm trying to care, Artemis, really. But I thought it was all supposed to be over when the fat lady sings. Well, she's singing, but it doesn't appear to be over

Life is like a movie, if you've sat through more than half of it and it’s sucked every second so far, it probably isn't going to get great right at the end and make it all worthwhile. None should blame you for walking out early.

I feel disappointed, but I don't remember just what I expected.

I should have been happy: I wasn’t.

It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.

All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it

Even if we could turn back, we'd probably never end up where we started.

I'm always interested in the unexpected and know that things, especially in show business, but in life generally, are inevitably fleeting to one extent.

It all meant something. Until it didn't.

But what is worse, smelling the roast and not feasting, or not smelling the roast at all?

Our performance during this World Cup has not been enough to progress further and both myself and all the players regret that and are hurt more than people realise.

The future did not arrive.

This world can only give me reminders of what I don't have, can never have, didn't have for long enough.

But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy!

Spoilt pleasure is a sad, unseemly thing; you can only bury it.

No one can keep their word. Everyone's in hurry and jumping to the next opportunity. There's something missing.

Dimitri should have been here with me. That's how it was supposed to have been.