Quotes About Disappointment

There are so many highs and lows working in TV. I learnt that the hard way when my contract for 'Big Brother's Bit On The Side' wasn't renewed. Nobody gave me a reason, so I felt rotten.

Everyone has days where they don't get their way, where you have to go to bed early or you have too much homework to do or you can't eat the candy that you want or you miss your favorite TV show and, in those moments, you just want to tear the whole world down.

It evolved out of the idea to make a kids TV show. And it actually turned out to be a bit dull and a bit regulated and too many people looking over your shoulder and it wasn't really.

One year, I did 10 or 11 pilots of TV shows that never went anywhere.

I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.

If in my twenties I'd gotten one of the two-dozen roles that I did screen tests for and almost got, I think I would have become bored with the awards circuit, the whole hype machine.

The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.

I can't tell you how many times I've booked an air ticket only to get to the airport and find out they killed my ticket because it goes into the system, and the program tosses a ticket that says 'fake' on it. Twice I've gone to the counter for a KLM flight through Northwest and have been rejected.

I fell asleep during 'Year One' twice. And my son, who never falls asleep during a Jack Black movie, also nodded off. That's how bad it was. I was incredibly disappointed.

I had a bunch of other projects that I worked really hard on after 'Twilight,' and the magic just didn't hit.

The trouble with most of the things that people want is that they get them.

Nobody wants to be associated with failing to qualify for the World Cup finals. I cannot imagine the shame of it.

Almost all photographers have incurred large expenses in the pursuit of tiny audiences, finding that the wonder they'd hoped to share is something few want to receive.

If I go into a restaurant and the food sucks I feel so depressed I just want to carve it in my wrist with the butter knife.

Sometimes things don't turn out the way you want them to, Haven. Sometimes the people you choose to believe are wrong.

Why did someone fall in love with you because you are one thing and then want you to be something else?

Mort was hurt by this. It was one thing not to want to marry someone, but quite another to be told they didn't want to marry you.

People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised.

Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one.

A lot of times, you just don't get the jobs you want to get.

When a good friend gives you his or her book, you don't want to read it, because you're afraid that it's not going be what you hope it can be.

I go to the theatre expecting to have a good time. I want each play and performance to take me somewhere. Naturally, this doesn't always happen.

After all that, you would think daughter would want to spend time with me, but she's busy. I get it.

marriage is like money - seem to want it, and you never get it.