Dorothy Hamill Quotes

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

You can work for 10 years without making it... we aren't actually all living in mansions.

I think that no relationship goes completely according to plan or the way you wished it had.

Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.

Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.

There's something depressing about a young couple helplessly in love. Their state is so perfect, it must be doomed. They project such qualities on their lover that only disappointment can follow.

It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.

Fame was not at all what it was cracked up to be, as far as I was concerned.

You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.

I don't think you should meet the people you most admire. I don't want reality to interfere with my image.

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.

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

The attraction to me was that Harvard was such a big community, with interesting things to do and interesting people, but you realise when you're there that things are a lot narrower than you thought. It's a little bit of a let-down.

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

When your mother is made out of your dreams, anything real is bound to disappoint you.

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.

You should never meet your heroes.

I remember coming out of college thinking, 'OK, I'm gonna get an agent, and I'm gonna make money. I'm gonna make millions of dollars.' And that never happened.

Everybody has a good idea, but nothing goes as planned.

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.

When you've been living in hope for a long time as I have, suddenly you realize that certainty is far more desirable than hope.

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

I accept that it is not always moonshine and roses, and you can't expect things must always go your way.