Olivier Martinez Quotes

Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills.

It was easy to idealize someone you barely knew.

Whatever happens in the world is real, what one thinks should have happened is projection. We suffer more from our fictitious illusion and expectations of reality.

It's easy to idealize someone that you don't know.

Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

It's so easy for us to misperceive and see the things in others that we want to see. And, when we're wrong, and often we're dead wrong, we miss the truth.

Americans see the world as they want it to be rather than the way it is.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

The less you know about the person, the more you fill in the rosiest details.

When you're young, you envision happiness in such an idealized way.

Misunderstanding is my cornerstone. It's everyone's, come to think of it. Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet.

We can easily represent things as we wish them to be.

Because nothing is as good as you can imagine it. No one is as beautiful as she is in your head. Nothing is as exciting as your fantasy.

Sometimes the way you think about someone isn't the way they actually are.

I'm like everyone else—I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does.

Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?

First appearance deceives many.

I think sometimes you can study guys and build them into giants that they are not.

When people look at me outside, they think, 'She's so lucky,' but no one's exempt from tragedy.

What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

I think this notion of acting and glamour is getting in everybody's way.

You see through love, and that deludes your sight, As what is straight seems crooked through the water.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.