Marriage is the death of hope.
If you get too big for your boots, if you've got big dreams, you're gonna get them broken or shattered.
The only people who become disillusioned are people who have illusions.
I've shattered every negative stereotype people had about me.
Dreams and expectations also have the very dark flipside of disappointment, broken dreams.
My characters always start well in movies. Almost every movie I've done starts with a happy marriage, it's all beautiful, wealthy, whatever... and then of course my husband leaves me, and everything falls apart.
I will always love the false image I had of you.
…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.
The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.
A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
A great hope fell You heard no noise The ruin was within.
But life, if nothing else, had taught her promises weren't always to be counted on, and what appeared at first a shining chance might end in bitter disappointment.
The high ideals and promises you once dressed the future in are dancing in the embers with the wind.
It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture to ourselves what flowers they might have borne, if they had flourished . . .
The people you are supposed to be able to trust the most is your family, and when that trust is broken, it's painful.
Nothing pleases me more than when somebody who was awe-inspired to be working with me realizes I'm just another schmuck that they're bored of hanging out with on a set. I love that moment. I like it when that persistent illusion is smashed.
Before I got married, I had a girlfriend who ran off in the middle of our relationship with a millionaire. She called from the South of France and said, 'I found one, I'm sorry. That's it. Goodbye!'
The first time I had my dreams crushed was when I was scammed, and somebody stole all of my magic props. I was a teenager, and I had put all my money into that. I had literally wanted to be the next David Copperfield. And that was all taken away.
I believe much of the pain of a breakup comes from having a life plan that you have fallen in love with. When it does not work out, you become angry that you now have to pursue a new life plan.
I had people think I was brilliant, then 'Half Baked' bricked. They literally look at me like a homeless person.
Well, California used to be in the dream-making business, and unfortunately what's happened I think we're now in the dream-breaking business.
It wasn't in the cards to work out in football.
When I came out, everybody in my life that said they loved me unconditionally turned around and said, 'Never mind!'
Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I thought.
