Annie Murphy Quotes

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?

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

I trained myself to not get my hopes up, because there were so many times in the room where you'd be like, 'This feels amazing, this is a hit!' And it never saw the light of day.

I have stopped expecting from films. What I expect never happens.

It's a terrible thing to have to tell your fans, who have waited like Detroit's have, that their team won't win it this year. But it's better than lying to them.

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

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

You play a couple of shows, and these label guys come - and they leave halfway through a show. Then the phone calls just stop. And your heart is broken.

If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.

Casting can be heartbreaking. Dealing with the disappointment is the hardest part.

I have crushed the cup of youth like a rose between my fingers but its nectar never warmed my weary heart.

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

I know what it's like to have a broken heart. I know what it's like to feel pain: When my songs don't become hits, it breaks my heart. There are a million ways to break a heart. I can relate.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

I worked out of Hollywood for 10 years and I had my heart broken half a dozen times, so I know all the things that can go wrong.

It's always bitterly disappointing to people to see how normally one can live.

And I thought my loss my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic.

When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.

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

I think that if you idealise someone for so long, they can only disappoint and I wouldn't want to be disappointed by those people.

I tried out for my basketball team every year and I never made it. You had to buy the shoes before you knew if you were on the team because it took a few weeks for them to ship. I bought the shoes every year, never once made the team, had a ton of high school basketball shoes.

Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting... you.

I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they are both pumping gas now.