We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.
Not many people get that 'happily ever after' they want in life. There are disappointments every step of the way, no matter how hard one strives for the best.
Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
It's a big thing now: A lot of people want to be assistants to celebrities. If you're pursuing that, you're an idiot. You're a moron. The shortest distance between two points is not a celebrity, or being next to a celebrity.
If you have an impossible dream, a dream that cannot be fulfilled, the friendly thing for me to do is to put a stop to you wasting your life at it.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
There's a million leading men on TV today that are perfectly great, and their jobs are fantastic. But it's not as interesting to me when every fight they win, every case they solve, every girl they get.
If my British film career was a girl, then I'd been hanging around outside her apartment a little bit too long.
After you get what you want you don't want it.
Nothing lives up to what you imagine. It changes, shifts, becomes something else.
I try not to want any one specific thing to happen because that's then bound to probably not happen. Particularly in Hollywood, I try not to set my hopes on anything.
I don't want to dream anymore, I want my life to be real!
When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay.
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
To anyone who has started out on a long campaign believing that the gold medal was destined for him, the feeling when, all of a sudden, the medal has gone somewhere else is quite indescribable.
You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.
Nobody but God loves him [William Randolph Hearst] and he knows it; and God's love he values only in so far as he fancies that it may promote his amusing ambition to darken the door of the White House.
Book stores drive me insane because I know that I will never be able to read everything I want to in my lifetime.
Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.
Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.
If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.
Expectation is the mother of all frustration.
