Sophie Lowe Quotes

I think people were expecting me to be that kind of glamorous sexpot. So they were always, Wow you're not what I expected.

I had a lot of romanticised ideas of what Detroit was like, but I didn't get there until I was 30, and it was very different than I had imagined it.

The fundamental mistake I had always made - and that she had, in fairness, always led me to make - was this: Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Everyone expects me to be 9 feet tall and weigh 200 pounds when they meet me.

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

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

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

Most of us...are naturally more sanguine and hopeful than logic would justify. We seem to be so constituted that in the absence of any facts to go upon we are happy and self-satisfied; so that the effect of experience is continually to contract our hopes and aspirations

I wanted to be famous. It's embarrassing to admit, but I came out to L.A. thinking it would happen in no time. I thought, 'Once they see me, they'll be so glad I came.' I always had a ridiculous amount of self-confidence about what was going to happen to me.

I'm not by nature a cynical person. But sometimes your expectations are different from reality.

I think everyone has the impression that L.A. is Hollywood and fast lives. That couldn't be further from the truth.

I've been a fool to allow dreams to become great expectations.

People aren't always what you want them to be

To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.

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.

We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn't, we start looking around for the real world.

It's not all wet towels and naked women. I was so disappointed to learn that.

Expectations destroy our peace of mind. They are future disappointments, planned out in advance.

Be careful what you’re doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the girl or boy in your head

I don;t think there's anything wrong with being a dreamer. There is not. But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.

It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.

But don't think that it's a system or a culture or a state or a person that does the letting down. It's our expectations that let us down. It begins in the warmth of the womb and the discovery that it's cold outside. But it's not the cold's fault that it's cold.

Life is not what you expected it to be.

Expectations are just disappointments waiting to happen.