Michael Jai White Quotes

I hate meeting my favorite bands because then it just ruins it.

When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.

I used to be an optimist, but now I know that nothing is going to turn out as I expect.

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

The people who feel the most strongly about something will turn on you the most vociferously if they feel you've let them down.

I reappointed him and he disappointed me.

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

You only get disappointed with who you trust the most.

Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves.

All men are a disappointment. No matter what anyone says.

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.

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

I am a genius. Then it amused me to keep saying so, but now it does not. I expected to be happy sometime. Now I know I shall never be.

Well, I don't ever get excited. I haven't been excited since I got a Chopper bicycle when I was about 12. Once you get older you realise there's always a catch to everything. So when I get, say, a commission to make a TV show, the catch is that you have to deliver something and then the sense of responsibility overwhelms the joy of the occasion.

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

I've always said that the experience of meeting an artist that you are in awe of and that you hope to create with one day is usually disappointing because you put them up on a pedestal, and then you're like, 'Wow, that's not a nice person.'

Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a greater contrast between his pledge and his performance in office, between his commitment to the nation and his current abandonment of all hope.

Nothing keeps its promise.

Sometimes your dreams come true, and it's a real drag.

Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.

Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.

But here's the thing: I had this great job, and I would still feel terribly depressed. I would just be like, 'This isn't the sweet spot. I thought this would be it, and I don't feel happy.'

Don't fall in love with politicians, they're all a disappointment. They can't help it, they just are.