Paul Dano Quotes

Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.

Love makes you blind. One day you're in love, the next day you wake up and realize that not everything is perfect.

The fundamental mistake I had always made - and that she had, in fairness, always led me to make - was this: Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl.

The person who is "in-love" has the ilusion that his beloved is perfect.

Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.

When you're the object of everyone's affection, make no mistake about it: you are an object. People don't have any interest in loving you for you. Their love for you is for who they think you are.

People think that dreams are better than reality but this is not always the case; sometimes, because you dream too much, you are unable to see what you have in front of your very eyes.

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

I used to be a hopeless romantic - I fell in love with everyone I went out with.

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.

Guys are great before you know who they are,' said Lucy. 'They're great when you're still with who they might be.

People are rarely as attractive in reality as they are in the eyes of the people who are in love with them. Which is, I suppose, as it should be.

It was better for me when I could imagine greatness in others, even if it wasn't always there.

... I never will allow myself to form an ideal of any person I desire to see, for disappointment never fails to ensue.

It was easy to idealize someone you barely knew.

Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.

Young people are fascinated with the idea of love, maybe because they haven't experienced it. The older you get, the more jaded you become with this, like, mystical love thing. It's not as exciting because it's not unknown.

It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another.

When you fall in love with favourite movie stars, it's not because they're movie stars and unattainable, but because they show you sides of themselves that are extremely personal.

Everyone thinks the fashion business is so glamorous. It's completely the opposite.

People have the illusion that all over the world, all the time, all kinds of fantastic things are happening. When in fact, over most of the world, most of the time, nothing is happening.

When you fall head over heels for someone, you're not falling in love with who they are as a person; you're falling in love with your idea of love.

The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.