Quotes About Disappointment

In Charlotte, I thought we were on the right track. It didn't happen.

Don't try to chase something that you want to be there but isn't actually there.

I felt cheated because a lot of people wanted a relationship with my father, and they played me.

Someone once told me we have in our minds who we want, and often those aren't the people we actually want. Like, once there was a girl I thought was perfect for me - I had every box checked with her. But I just didn't feel anything.

You do not send me to Brooklyn to get a cheesecake and then I come back and you're gone.

I was good in biology, but I did very badly in chemistry, and my parents were horrified by that.

If you've ever done something you love and go do something you like, it's like chewing on sawdust.

My first role was on Broadway from 1963-64 in Chips With Everything.' It was very well reviewed but not very well attended.

When I was a kid and Christmas was coming up, my dad would ask me what I wanted, and I always said a motorbike. I kept asking for one, and he said it was too dangerous and bought me a go-kart instead.

As much as I liked the build-up to Christmas, the week after always socked me with the blues.

Being a backbench MP is a bit of an anti-climax for a superhero.

When I was a kid, I looked up to an Olympian superstar. I won't mention his name but when I asked for his autograph he said, 'no.'

I think when you sign a recording deal, you think, 'I'm going to put out a song and have a hit right away. I'll be a giant superstar. I can take over the world now.' But I put out a song, and it did OK. It wasn't like leaps and bounds.

My great heartbreak was completely botching my callback for Herod in Jesus Christ Superstar' in college.

I didn't like the way Andrew Peacock was not supported in 1984. He'd done well in that election; he deserved to continue. But by the end of '85, he was out.

An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.

When it goes bad, you know supporters will be angry at players who were bought for most money.

I am disappointed at not being able to live up to the expectations of my supporters, but every cricketer goes through such a time.

I want violence. I want punching in the face. I'm disappointed in Trump supporters for not punching enough.

One of the things that impacted me the most was in the 12th grade. I just assumed I would get the lead in the musical. Well, I didn't get it; I got the second lead, and I was devastated... my mom said something like, 'Often the supporting character is better.'

For the past three or four years you know the crowd's behind you, supporting you, and to then be given a bit of a boo is not a good feeling.

My name had been sent for the award for Best Supporting Actor in 'Tere Naam,' but I missed it.

I wanted to explore the kinds of hope and doubt, faith and disappointment, that shape the next generation, whether consciously or not. I suppose, in all of my work, I'm always going back in time.

I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.