Denis Leary Quotes

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

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

Love is a promise delivered already broken.

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?'

Nothing keeps its promise.

It's the same old story you've heard a thousand times. Somebody's trust gets broken. Somebody's left behind.

If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.

That was a surprise. I just had wished that Wil Wheaton was there. He was missing from the last show and it would have been nice if everyone could have been there.

Yesterday's promise, like tomorrow's never comes.

There is so much heartbreak and letdown in this industry. You get your heart set on something, and then you're sitting by the phone for three weeks and it never rings.

When you romanticize something so extraordinarily in the hopes that it will divert you from agony, you're destined for a letdown.

When I was up in Washington state, I always thought, 'I'm going to go to Los Angeles where films are made and stories are told, and they're going to love me and welcome me with open arms.' But, there was no welcoming committee.

When he says he loves me, it only means he loves me at that particular instant. Like his promises, which he never keeps. Why does he torment me like this, when he could finish it off at once?

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

When I first found out that Superman wasn't real, I was about maybe eight. And I was talking to my mother about it. And she was like, 'No, no, no. There's no Superman.' And I started crying. I really thought he was coming to rescue us. The chaos, the violence, the danger. No hero was coming.

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

Few things can make us feel crazier than expecting something from someone who has nothing to give.

You gotta learn that if you don't get it by midnight, chances are you ain't gonna get it, and if you do, it ain't worth it.

Letting someone down is not criminal action.

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got.

I don't like being disappointed by somebody I trust. Fortunately, it rarely happens.

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.

The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.

The blind date that has stood you up: your life.