Amrita Singh Quotes

And if real life was like the movies, I should have lived happily ever after.

I always looked for a man to rescue me and bring me happiness. I bought into that myth, of course, and looked for my own Prince Charming.

Nothing that you want ever is what you think it is.

I was in love with the idea of love, so I created elaborate fictions for my relationships - fictions that allowed me to believe that what any given paramour and I shared looked a lot like love.

Nobody should pin their hopes on a miracle.

That Happily Ever After is a great way to tell stories when you're young but eventually it loses its meaning because it's just not true.

We have this idealized romanticism about how love might solve all of our problems, but then it doesn't.

The problem with idealizing love is that it causes us to develop unrealistic expectations about what love actually is and what it can do for us.

I think one of the saving illusions of the film business is everything seems like it's about to happen. It's always about to happen. It's only looking back that you see the wasteland.

I don't believe in 'happy ever after' at all as a concept.

Living in hope is a really terrible thing.

There’s no such thing as handsome princes, she told herself. There’s no such thing as happily ever after.

If it came true, it wasn't much of a dream.

Expectation improperly indulged in must end in disappointment.

I believed in happily ever after as much as anyone, because Jane Austen, Prince Charming, and Hugh Grant promised me it could happen. But maybe that particular delusion was universal.

The dreams weren’t as pleasing when they had no chance of coming true

California is a tragic country … like every Promised Land.

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.

I'm as much a victim of the romantic myth of 'getting away' as anyone else. My head tells me it's myth, but I don't want to believe it is.

You think you can do anything, and then you slowly learn how wrong you are.

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.

Things aren't always the fairy tale that you thought they were.

When you fall in love, and you're very young, you think that that's the love of your life. And maybe it is, but it usually doesn't turn out that way.

I am a romantic person and maybe have this Hollywood perception of love... but then, it's never really like the movies.