George Murray Quotes

I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.

I got involved in music because I love everything about it, but now I'm in it you see the other side and it isn't much fun. Not as glamorous and enjoyable as you imagine.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

To fulfil a fantasy is the quickest way to destroy it.

Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.

Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.

Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.

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.

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

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.

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

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

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

I probably revisit in my work the moment at which I realised that dreams couldn't be reality.

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

You know, nothing is ever happily-ever-after. Ever.

I don't think you should meet the people you most admire. I don't want reality to interfere with my image.

California is a tragic country … like every Promised Land.

Nothing ever comes out the way I hope it will. That first vision, that initial vision you have of a book, what it's going to be like when it's done, it begins to go wrong the second you start to write.

You don't get everything you want. That doesn't exist in this realm.

Not many people get that 'happily ever after' they want in life. There are disappointments every step of the way, no matter how hard one strives for the best.

I remember coming out of college thinking, 'OK, I'm gonna get an agent, and I'm gonna make money. I'm gonna make millions of dollars.' And that never happened.

This is a terrible confession to make, but after I left the Army I had a number of things to try. I had a great conceit to think that if all else failed I could always go to Hollywood. So when all else did fail I really went to Hollywood. And then I found out how wrong I was.

The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.