Quotes About Frustration

If I had an extra 20 or 50 years physically, I could have been the dancer of my dreams. But I never became that dancer.

I don't understand, given the constraints physicians have in doing their job and the paperwork demanded of them, why people want to be physicians. I think we've made it very, very difficult for them to perform their job. I think that's a shame.

The album 'Physicist,' I erased all the work that I had done halfway through. I think that's probably why that contributed to that album being sort of sub-par for me, just because by the time I had to go back and do it, I was just over it.

Since childhood I've been very bad with formulas in math, physics.

Oddly, when I started to make the record, I wasn't aware I was making a record. I just was sort of disgusted with the whole thing and sequestered myself in the basement and started playing the piano just for something to do.

I cannot write music. I cannot play the piano.

I liked the piano. I always liked playing. I just hated homework.

I wish I could play the piano. I started when I was four and finished when I was five. I got bored. I couldn't tell my left hand from my right back then!

When I was a kid, my parents gave me piano lessons and guitar lessons for a while, but I was never very good at it. I have big, sort of awkward hands. It's hard to keep going when you don't get any better.

I started with the piano-accordion and rebelled against it, but I could not afford piano lessons.

I used to raise the devil when my father made me practice the flute and my mother made me take piano lessons.

This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.

I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn't picked me up.

I really hate when I do a great song with great lyrics but my voice just don't fit because of the type of beat I picked.

When I first picked up an instrument, nothing really happened. I played piano when I was a little kid. I hated it so much, I actually don't play piano now.

I once was interviewed and got so exasperated that I said, 'What do you want, a shopping list?' They kept asking, 'What's in this picture?'

I had tried writing novels for many years, and they always escaped me. For a long time, I thought, 'It's just not in me to write a novel. It's not something I'm able to do.' It seemed like everything I wrote naturally ended at the bottom of page three. A picture book, three pages; an essay, three pages.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

I used to play the piano by listening to it - like Chopin pieces, when I was, like, a little kid - and then the minute my parents got me lessons to read music, I couldn't do it anymore.

The first things I made were absolute pig's ears. I didn't understand about facings, or finishings, or anything.

I got pigeonholed a bit. When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted to be the kind of actress I became.

I got canceled in the middle of making the pilot.

I've written several pilots that haven't gone, so that's why you haven't seen any.

As a producer and director, I've tried for years to get properties off the ground for girls, and I've been hitting a brick wall.