A child's hope is that your father comes riding in on that white stallion and saves them. You can't make somebody love you the way you want them to love you, it's not a Leave it to Beaver type world. This isn't television. Life's a lot more cruel than that.
That was a surprise. I just had wished that Wil Wheaton was there. He was missing from the last show and it would have been nice if everyone could have been there.
'Prince of Persia' just didn't turn out to be what I thought it was going to be.
Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.
I was almost expecting the Olympics to be the biggest thing ever, but it wasn't. It was just another race.
When I was up in Washington state, I always thought, 'I'm going to go to Los Angeles where films are made and stories are told, and they're going to love me and welcome me with open arms.' But, there was no welcoming committee.
I remember feeling that. I couldn't do, nor did I want to do, the kinds of roles I'd been doing.
For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.
You don't want a guy to be happy he's not starting.
I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn’t turned out to be.
Yesterday's promise, like tomorrow's never comes.
My whole childhood, I'd been dreaming of this two-point-four children, living in the country - everything was just going to fall into place, and I'd be this perfect mum. And it didn't happen. I was very shocked and disappointed.
I hate meeting my favorite bands because then it just ruins it.
In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.
There's not going to be a 'Rescue Me' movie. Not a chance.
His daughter returned from her boarding school, improved in fashionable airs and expert in manufacturing fashionable toys; but, in her conversation, he sought in vain for that refined and fertile mind which he had fondly expected.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation..
Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.
Expectations are like hidden rocks in your path , All they do is trip you up
There's nothing wrong with having goals, but obsessing over them is often counterproductive because, in reality, achieving a goal isn't always what it's cracked up to be.
Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.
I keep thinking they’re gonna call me. I keep thinking they’re gonna crunch the numbers and think, oh, we can make money with this! And they don’t.
It is important for children to understand that some of the disappointment their parents feel for them is often really the parents' disappointment in their own lives.
You don't want to dream too big in case it doesn't happen.
If you felt that excitement when you voted for Barack Obama, shouldn't you feel that way now that he's President Obama? You know there's something wrong with the kind of job he's done as president when the best feeling you had was the day you voted for him.
