Alberto Giacometti Quotes

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

You can always say, 'I wish I had landed that triple flip better, or I wish I didn't fall.' They're not regrets, just mistakes.

It's tough never being right.

Every job I take, within minutes I'm thinking, 'I can't do this.' I think it's what makes me work. People think I just swagger in and do it. But I doubt myself all the time. It's what pushes me, what makes me work harder. The older I get, the less I take for granted.

There are times when I think, 'I'm going to get this part. I know I am. I'm going to get this.' And then I don't, and I'm wondering, 'What happened? I went back five times!'

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

If you fail, do not be discouraged.

Just put your best foot forward and hope for the best. You also have to acknowledge that you're going to make mistakes.

My shadow is only half of what it should be." "Everyone has their shortcomings.

Either still I find Some imperfection in the chosen theme, Or see of absolute accomplishment Much wanting, so much wanting, in myself, That I recoil and droop, and seek repose In listlessness from vain perplexity, Unprofitably travelling towards the grave.

I wish I could do a lot of things different. I'm not going to tell you what they are, but if I had a list of all my films right now, I'd go, 'Okay, I'll cross that one out and cross that one out and cross that one out and cross that one out.' Really. But I've made over 40 films. How can I not have some losers in there?

I've heard that our greatest cross to carry is ourselves - how gravely we fall short.

Sometimes you get to a place in life where you feel you've made some choices, and maybe they weren't the right choices, and that it's all coming to an end.

You can't win them all.

Words can't describe how one would feel in that moment after doing a test for something you really want but in your heart you don't think you have a chance of getting.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

The thing I always tell my audiences all the time is that I'm just two steps ahead of you on a good day. And I might be two steps behind you on a bad day.

I haven't always done a good job, and I haven't always been successful - but I know that I have tried.

I have a lot of insecurities, but you learn from your failures.

I think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that I don't think it will work out, doesn't mean that it actually won't.

Being bad at stuff is hard, and we all deal with it every day because we're all bad at stuff.

I'm usually convinced that what I'm working on is a total disaster.

Look, you do the bloody well best you can. You fumble. You make mistakes.

I missed so many opportunities along the way to do what I wanted to do because I didn't have the confidence to tell myself, much less anybody else, 'Yes, this is the business I wanted to be a part of, and not feeling that I had the talent... and letting it go all the way through Notre Dame and then through two years of Navy service.