Craig Zadan Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

People saying, 'Life didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.' Welcome to the club. I wanted to be the starting center-fielder for the Boston Red Sox, for chrissakes!

I had some great high points and thought: 'This is fantastic. I'm going to be a huge star.' Then something happens, and you can't get a job to save your life.

The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing.

There are so many people who try so hard and have such big dreams, and it doesn't happen for them.

I don't want someone taking up half my time. I don't need to get my heart broken.

When you put a great amount of energy and hope in a big project, you can be destroyed if you don't do it.

Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.

I always say you have to be willing to get your heart broken.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

I'd be lying if I claimed that, in spite of our amiable afternoons, I don't have an ache somewhere in my heart that my children will not be playing Carnegie Hall anytime soon.

As a general rule, people disappoint you as you know them.

Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.

I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.

Paper Moon didn't bring me love.

I've grown to love L.A., but it's the most socially awkward place. All these people have come there not to be something but to pretend to be someone trying to be someone.

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.

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

I wanted to be a huge star and I have failed.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.