Denise Crosby Quotes

Life does not owe me a shred.

I'm not always going to keep waiting for a fairytale ending.

So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.

I kept thinking I was always going to meet the right man, but I never did. Kept waiting for this knight in shining armour. 'When's he coming? He's taking a long time, isn't he?'

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

I wish my name was Cobb. Then they would send over a Cobb salad.

Chimere's not mine. That hurt 'cause I had attached myself to this guy, you know. This is my son. I'm looking at him, and I'm picturing I'm gonna be old, and he's gonna be - this is my son! It's not my son.

In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.

A child's hope is that your father comes riding in on that white stallion and saves them. You can't make somebody love you the way you want them to love you, it's not a Leave it to Beaver type world. This isn't television. Life's a lot more cruel than that.

I feel like everything will be a letdown after 'You're The Worst.' It was such a great experience.

Even as a child I had a strong relationship with yearning and desire. And loss. Those things spoke to me.

If my British film career was a girl, then I'd been hanging around outside her apartment a little bit too long.

My first novel was called 'Betrayed by F. Scott Fitzgerald,' about the difficulties of graduating from college, the longing and mourning you feel when all your promise seems to float away.

I can't watch 'Glee' because I get so jealous that I'm not there with them doing it that I can't even watch.

There's not going to be a 'Rescue Me' movie. Not a chance.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.

What I want back is what I was.

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.

Where I live, in Vermont, there's this thing that women know about men, which is this disease: their childhood was so idyllic that nothing in the rest of their life can ever be satisfying. It's almost a plague.

Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams I had.