Quotes About Disappointment

When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.

'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.

I had no plans to be a writer. My teenaged bid for stardom was to be a pop star... which, ahem, didn't exactly work out.

It's just not right that so many things don't work when they should. I don't think that will change for a long time.

Usually when you meet with a director, just meeting them after you've seen something you're interested in, they say, "Oh I'd love to work together," and sometimes you never hear from them again.

Disappointments that aren't a result of our own foolishness are a testing of our faith or a correction from heaven, and it is our own fault if these disappointments don't work for our own good.

In Hollywood, normally things don't work out, and dreams are crushed.

I dream it shatters, I expect and dissapoints, I get tired & Same dream insists I want to be your & my fatigue smiles as whole energy be in me .

Stuck in the plane on the runway. You can always count on US Air.

Everyone who feels stuck in the Obama economy is right to focus on the here and now. And I hope you understand this too, if you're feeling left out or passed by: You have not failed, your leaders have failed you.

There's nothing worse than being stuck with a bad song.

I didn't know anything about acting, I didn't know anything about theater, but I was just an exceptional student at high school. I wanted to play ball; I'm going after a basketball scholarship and be a doctor. I got injured and my marks began to drop.

My father wasn't absolutely delighted. He wanted me to become a lawyer. I studied law, but I thought the shoe business was more exciting.

I mean, I've sold all these scripts and nothing's been made. Studios have closed, stars have died. I had a director find Jesus. And the pictures just don't get made.

I had adapted to the blonde. So when they told me I'm going back to do these five episodes of 'Arrow', I was clearly really excited, but when they said I couldn't be blonde, it stung a little.

There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with.

I don't know if what kids really want is a hamster. What they want is a dog. So the hamster ends up being a substitute: 'Well, would you accept this?'

All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother at home. I longed for some wonderful man to come and save me from my life - but there didn't seem to be any, at least not for me.

Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with 'Highway,' there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended 'Highway' to be the first film that I ever made. Didn't happen.

Growing up, I imagined I would come to New York, get married, move to the suburbs and have kids. It just didn't happen that way.

Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.

My soul-filled experiences have taught me to embrace disappointments, knowing

Emmitt spat back, "Girl, I wasn't doing nothing but lying to you. I ain't got no damn ranch. That ain't even my car. I just test-drive them on the weekends." He laughed ruefully. "I'm sitting here trying to find someone who'll give us a place to stay.

The theater had seating for two hundred people. You know how many seats were filled on opening night? Thirty. That's right. Thirty. When I looked out and saw all that emptiness, my heart sank to the bottom. I was so naïve, assuming people would just show up. On top of that, I'd booked the theater for Fourth of July weekend. I had a lot