David O. Selznick Quotes

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

So many poems you go into and come up empty.

When playing football became a job, it lost its luster for me.

When you romanticize something so extraordinarily in the hopes that it will divert you from agony, you're destined for a letdown.

When the response to comedy becomes cheering instead of laughing, that is so irritating. It's the worst.

The Hatton fight left a bad taste in my mouth.

Taking a night off from comedy to go on a date with someone I'm probably not going to like anyway sounds like the worst trade-off in my mind.

There are no more vices left - I don't drink or smoke and at a party, after a while, I am lost. I don't dance to the beat of that drum anymore.

The novel is like a melancholy form. It's about some kind of disillusionment with the way things are versus the idea of how they could be or how they used to be.

I just lost interest in performing.

I've lost the ability to be surprised.

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.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

I can't say I love football anymore.

To be honest, I am not really excited by most of the offers I get.

The trip had become boring. It wasn't exciting anymore to totally be a singer/songwriter because it wasn't working for me.

Disillusion is the last illusion.

I got sort of disinterested in working for the system.

Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself.

There are too many other inexplicable things around us--horrors, threats, mysteries that draw you in and then inevitably disenchant you. Back to the predictable and humdrum. The prince is never going to come, everybody knows that; and maybe Sleeping Beauty's dead.

The Four Inevitabilities: 1. Musty Books. 2. Uninteresting Nature. 3. Dull Existence. 4. Blank Nirvana, buy that boy.

What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.

This world is gradually becoming a place Where I do not care to be any more.

They came looking for dark and terrible revelations and instead found out something even more dark and terrible: that their lives were trite and boring.

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.