Quotes About Disappointment

I moved to Los Angeles when I was 17. I had just booked 'Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakwell.' I thought, 'Well, I'm just going to move to L.A. and become famous. 'Squeakwell' is going to launch me to that point.' Well, I didn't end up working for, like, three years afterward. That's kind of the name of the game.

I remember borrowing my mum's Instamatic 110 camera as a kid and doing still lifes of tennis balls and benches and thinking they were going to be something really amazing. They ended up being really bad.

In fact, both my parents were doctors but I was a duffer.

No one bought my screenplays.

You can sometimes bowl extremely well and get no reward.

After 'Ishq Brandy,' I was either not getting good scripts or not good characters.

I'm not going to be on the show 'Breaking Bad.'

If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart.

Breaks your heart when your son doesn't love you.

You know, they wanted to do a Broadway album and every show was kind of a bomb. There was no music at all.

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.

I think my film 'Laila Majnu' was in theatres for 7 days and I was very excited. I attended as many shows I could in those 7 days because I was seeing myself on the big screen for the very first time. I was very excited. But then, sometimes there were 20 people, sometimes 5 or 1 or 2, that really broke my heart.

We had been working. We had a bunch of songs written and it came time to make the record, so we had our lawyer make the call to Elektra and ask for our advance. Then, we got dropped. It was actually exciting.

I feel like Rio 2016 was my worst performance, and really my burnout.

If you don't score, what happens? You sulk on the bus the whole way back.

My first WPS season was a bust.

I wish President Obama had succeeded because I want America to succeed. But his promises gave way to disappointment and division. This isn't something we have to accept. Now is the moment when we can do something. With your help we will do something.

My parents - my mother, particularly - were very focused on our succeeding. I loved my parents, and was very grateful to them for everything, and I didn't want to disappoint them.

Let all your moments of self-doubt, fear or disappointment fuel your drive to be great. Because it will be in those moments of fear that we have to realize we must redefine success and what it means to us.

If success is about winning the league, there will always be 19 disappointed clubs.

We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.

In 'Scream 2', they have this discussion about how sequels always suck.

Bouncers suck.

Families, generally, suck. And I say that as someone who, like my husband, had parents who proved the proverbial exception to the rule.