Nick Flynn Quotes

My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother.

I learned everything about love, watching 'Splash.' That's why I'm still single, so thanks Tom Hanks and Daryl Hannah for that.

Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.

I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?

I did make some not-so-great relationship decisions when I was a lot younger. I do know that not all high school boys are great and wonderful and Prince Charming, and there are a few that are going to treat you that way.

Italy to me is like the mean mother. Whatever I do, it's never good enough. People say I'm the queen of Cannes, but in Italy I get turned down for work.

You have to look at the discrepancy between what you hoped and imagined and the reality of yourself and all your shortcomings.

You know, nothing is ever happily-ever-after. Ever.

Sometimes I'll be with a girl and I can tell she's still thinking she's watching 'Married... with Children.' They aren't able to get to know me.

There is so much heartbreak and letdown in this industry. You get your heart set on something, and then you're sitting by the phone for three weeks and it never rings.

Perfectionism rarely begets perfection, or satisfaction - only disappointment.

I try not to want any one specific thing to happen because that's then bound to probably not happen. Particularly in Hollywood, I try not to set my hopes on anything.

You know how in most teenage movies the girl meets the boy, they kiss, they have some type of fallout, then there's an awkward sex scene, and then they're together forever? And they say the perfect things the whole way? That doesn't happen in real life.

You write a spec, and you pour your heart and soul and life into a spec, and you think that spec is the movie that's going to sell and get made... I've never heard of anybody that happened to.

Things don't always happen the way one wishes they would.

I'm very hard on myself. Sometimes too hard on myself. When I lost in the Wimbledon finals, I was so sad, I cried. I had the runner-up trophy! It's still a great accomplishment, but I was so mad.

I have grown up on a staple diet of love stories. But, soon I realised it is not so rosy or divine. It is painful, selfish and ugly. Love is the biggest curse of this generation!

I've got a lot of silvers. Second seems to be something I end up being. I don't want to be the bridesmaid forever.

I was so naive to think once you sign, it's all good, and you are a superstar.

The grass isn't always greener on the other side.

Trying to design the perfect plan is the perfect recipe for disappointment.

Some say I'm arrogant, some say I'm deluded.

I really do think that putting expectations on a holiday is setting yourself up for failure.

I ended up moving to Dubai and going into finance after college because of family pressure. I was trying to love it, but I just didn't.

I was a bellman - a great hotel, five-star hotel in Boston. I made great money. I made cash every day. I had good benefits. We had 401k. All the things you could ask for in a great job, I had. You know what I didn't have? I hated my job.