Quotes About Frustration

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.

Sometimes you feel like it's cursed when something takes so long to come out and you don't know if it's going to really come out.

Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?

I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something.

My career was obviously cut shorter than I wanted it to be.

I was done with music and I became very cynical about the industry and Top 40 radio. I didn't even want to look at music for a while, and did a course in screen-writing.

Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they are.

Nothing frustrates me about the art world. It is a lovely place. There are many daft things that amuse me about it though.

I damaged my Achilles tendon, so I can't run.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?

I hate those damn streetcars - they are just a pain in the rear-end. You get behind them and you can't get around them and then you get your cyclists too.

You try to be the best you can and sometimes it ain't damn good enough.

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

There are certainly moments in the story room where you watch the movie die on the table. You put A next to B, and suddenly none of it lines up anymore. We feel that all the time. It's a terrible feeling.

Men explain things to me, still. And no man has ever apologized for explaining, wrongly, things that I know and they don't. Not yet, but according to the actuarial tables, I may have another fortysomething years to live, more or less, so it could happen. Though I'm not holding my breath.

Blake & Murphy didn't seem to appreciate who I was and what I was doing for them. After losing the NXT Tag Team Championship, they went on a long losing streak. They needed me yet just used me as an accessory.

Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

You got to take a deep breath and give up. The system is rigged against you.

I have a job I'm pretty good at. I am in charge of things. I am on committees. People respect me and take my counsel. I want to be strong and professional, but I resent how hard I have to work to be taken seriously, to receive a fraction of the consideration I might otherwise receive.

Being successful right away is obviously less stressful, but when it takes longer, it's often sweeter.

The poor man looks upon the law as an enemy, not as a friend. For him, the law is always taking something away.

Your hard work and talent will not pay off.

My father, Phillip Gilmore, was very talented. He was getting seriously into dancing. He was on 'Soul Train' and won $2,500. But the Bay Area was too small for him. I don't think he had the space to do what he needed to do.

My problem is I'm not talented enough to do everything, but I want to do everything. I'm like, 'Oh God, I wish I could dance! Oh God, I wish I could rap!' I can't be a rapper, and I'm sure as hell not going to be able to dance for a living, but I want to do it all, you know?