Adam Rayner Quotes

I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

Paper Moon didn't bring me love.

I wanted to be a huge star and I have failed.

The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing.

I sort of dropped the ball after 'Bonnie and Clyde.'

I know I may never emerge as a leading man.

When you work on a passion project, there's always the chance that you'll get your heart broken.

Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.

Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.

I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?

I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.

Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.

Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?

I think the life of an actor is glamorous to other people, but then the reality sets in: you don't know where you will be next year or how long you'll be there for.

I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.

When I was in acting classes early on, there were so many people in these classes who were doing great work, and you'd just look at them and say, 'Wow, I hope to someday be like that.' And yet these people never worked. You never saw them.

Every day I realized I would not be a star.

You can't have a perfect show every time.

People saying, 'Life didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.' Welcome to the club. I wanted to be the starting center-fielder for the Boston Red Sox, for chrissakes!

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

Lost in a crowd of greats, not a single Oscar. That's showbiz.