Quotes About Disappointment

I'd been told I was going to be the next big thing. But in actual fact, the complete opposite happened.

An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.

I'm not optimistic.

At my core, the glass isn't half-empty - it's not even what I ordered in the first place.

Don't you always feel bad when they take away one of the spoons? It's like you ordered wrong.

There is a lot of pressure on organizations and on players to win it all. If you don't, there is a lot of disappointment and a lot of fallout because of it.

I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy prince never came.

I met Magnus Lidehall about two years ago, and the beat that I originally wrote 'Younger' on was one of the first ones that he sent me. I must have been around 21 at that time, feeling a bit lazy and disappointed with myself and my life.

There is no worse situation to be in than Oscar night. Not knowing whether you've won is completely draining.

Even after I won the Oscar, my phone did not ring. No one called me to fund films or offer projects.

I've learned to not have expectations. I think the first movie I did, I was like, 'Oh my God, I'm going to win an Oscar!' You can't do that, you're going to let yourself down.

We have to put people on pedestals; otherwise, there's no one to knock off pedestals.

As a fan, there are times you get frustrated as to what you think a team ought to be doing.

I just remember the feeling of being dropped from Island and having our hearts broken. Because we were given a chance to put out an album to the world. We got the chance for people to know who we were. We wanted to make our dreams come true and do hip-hop for a living, but we didn't do it right.

Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we'll reach a certain point in our lives, look around and realize that all the things we said we'd do and become will never come to be - and that we're ordinary.

When 'our people' get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being 'our people.'

I wouldn't have expected an audience of ours to burn down our equipment.

As it has been told to me, my Dad had some kind of deal with Dick Clark. But when we got here, that fell through. So we were out here with no job, no furniture, no food.

I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring.

I don't think I'm alarmist. I'm more disappointed by the euphemisms in some instances than outright bigotry. Now, to me, you walk around with a Klan hat on or you've got a swastika on you arm, you just look like a dope, you know what I mean?

When someone is outright nasty to you that hurts. I really try not to have a negative outlook. I mean, I'm not going to say I'm not disappointed when I read something bad about myself.

At 32, I kind of thought I was past the point where I was gonna get a break that really changed my life overnight.

I thought I would be an overnight star when I had a hit record in Brazil with my first album - but things didn't work out quite like that.

I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.