Henry Cejudo Quotes

As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

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?

Life doesn't always end up with a bow wrapped around it.

It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

You expect certain things. You build up in your mind how it's supposed to go down. When you get a record deal, you think you're supposed to get X, Y, and Z. It doesn't happen like that. You're like 'Oh, this isn't as exciting as I thought it was going to be.'

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

Mind the gap - it's the distance between life as you dream it and life as it is.

Illusions are bound to be shattered

The only way to keep a dream, any dream at all, to keep a dream perfect and rosy and intact and unsullied is never to live it out. The moment you carry out any of your dreams or your fantasies - travel around the world, climbing a high mountain, buying a new house, writing a novel, carrying out a sexual fantasy, traveling to an unknown country - the moment you carry out your dreams, it's always, by definition less perfect and rosy than it had been as a dream. This is the nature of dreams.

I know how difficult it can be when the image you've had of something doesn't match its reality; when the friend beside you turns into a monster.

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

I think the 20s are a vastly overrated decade. We promise kids that once they get out of school, life will begin and their dreams will come true. But then comes the struggle.

I don't want to dream anymore, I want my life to be real!

The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from personal experience, that things really aren't that good.

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

Every day I realized I would not be a star.

Everyone thinks offers are always pouring in. Offers have never poured in. Never. I was auditioning a lot, but I didn't get the jobs.

I don't think any of us grew up into the world we were hoping for or expecting.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.