Quotes About Frustration

I feel like every conversation with my father is like an M. Night Shyamalan movie; 90 minutes of build-up to no payoff.

I've been airbrushed out, as it were. You can imagine my frustration at being erased from history deliberately. I really don't know how Yoko can sleep at night knowing what she's done. But I can tell you I sleep very peacefully.

I get what it feels like to watch some of your peers pass you in a field that you're in.

I wasn't mad, but it was maybe a little frustrating sometimes seeing some friends and peers my age do well. Not because I wasn't cheering for them - because I feel like I was as good as them.

There's an ongoing 'water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink' situation at my house in terms of both pens and paper.

You know, I have dropped three expensive pens on the nib. And it just makes you cry when it happens.

I hate it when people say, Mary Elizabeth, this may be hell, but the movie is going to be sooo good.

Have I done more business-related things to help my career grow? Yeah. I took the business end more seriously, hooked up with a manager, got some help, because at a certain point, you get frustrated when you go do auditions, and people say you did a great job, and then you don't get he part.

Young people contact me all the time to articulate issues with the industrial food system, but they are frustrated by their perceived inability to do anything about it.

I'd say 80 percent of my auditions go very horribly.

Don't matter what I do, what I say, how much I try to change. You don't change perception.

Perfection is terrible; it cannot have children.

It's a bit of a headache being a perfectionist. You're never satisfied.

Sometimes I get frustrated with my own self because I'm such a perfectionist.

When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.

I was playing 'The Flight of the Bumblebee,' and I totally forgot the ending, so I performed the whole piece again, and I still couldn't remember it.

I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.

Most people who are writers go through periods when they can't write.

I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.

It is literally painful to watch Rick Perry as a candidate.

Losing one glove is certainly painful, but nothing compared to the pain, of losing one, throwing away the other, and finding the first one again.

ON PROBLEMS Our choicest plans have fallen through, our airiest castles tumbled over, because of lines we neatly drew and later neatly stumbled over.

They say that this lot is bitterest: to recognize the good but by necessity to be barred from it.

It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.