Quotes About Disappointment

I'm the first to admit that I never achieved my potential as an actress.

I don't think any player lives up to his potential, because people out there put you so high on a pedestal, you'll never be as good as they expect.

You think if you win the Olympics, you'll become a millionaire overnight. But I was still scraping the barrel, looking down the back of the settee for pound coins to buy a pint of milk.

I moved up to 130 pounds hoping champions in this division were not cowards like those at 126 pounds. It looks like I was wrong.

You write a spec, and you pour your heart and soul and life into a spec, and you think that spec is the movie that's going to sell and get made... I've never heard of anybody that happened to.

I hate talking about the dunk contest. I'm just so sick of the dunk contest. I'm done with that. That point of my life I'm over with.

My father was convinced that America was the greatest place in the world. I'm afraid I didn't have the family I would have dreamed of.

I am not at all convinced by Pogba. He plays a lot in England - it's true - but I expected a lot more from him.

I think the moment you're convinced something's going to be good is the moment that it's not going to be.

I married a man who convinced me that he loved me, who looked lonely and who I thought had the same ideas about life and the same goals, but we were just too different.

There were a lot of bad relationships that got very convoluted up at Columbia with me, what they expected from me.

You can count on Errol Flynn, he'll always let you down.

My dream when I was younger was always to be a Benfica player. So when I arrived on the first team to work with a coach that didn't count on me, who put me as a left back, of course I was a bit sad.

I always wanted to play a cowboy. I just didn't get to do it the way I thought I would.

2020 has been crap.

You get to the end of something, you're laughing, you're like, 'That's funny, and that's funny,' and then you get to the end, and the credits come down, and you're like, 'That's it?! That's the whole thing?! You had me here for that?!' I just don't want to do that.

I wanted to bat for the England cricket team. I was quite good at cricket. But then I kept getting out for low scores. It turned out I didn't have the talent.

I think, a lot of times when you do a comedy show, people will turn out for a name they know. So, they get excited when they see Patton Oswalt is going to be on the show, but they kind of cross their arms until Patton Oswalt shows up.

A lot of teams with expectations crumble.

In my first few years as an actor, I took one terrible TV job after another. But even as I laughed off my awful roles and made fun of myself to friends, my work made me cringe - I dreaded anyone's seeing it. I was crushed that I wasn't doing anything I was proud of.

When you have a dream in mind and you want it so bad and you fail, it crushes you.

I was class VI or VII when I had a crush on a girl, and I thought this is the girl I'd marry. When you're so young, you are crestfallen when things don't turn out your way and think it's the end of the world.

I feel like winning the title was a curse. It was something that I always wanted to achieve. I got it, but it didn't turn out the way I thought. The business side of it has not been very good.

Everybody wants me to finally close the curtain on the joke that is the Audley Harrison show.