Mahesh Bhatt Quotes

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

I have an enormous sense of having failed in life.

You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting... you.

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.

Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star of his own Halloween special.

Everyone is told to go to high school and get good grades and go to college and get good grades and then get a job and then get a better job. There's no one really telling a story about how they totally blew it, and they figured it out.

I was always behind in class. There was people in my class who was amazing at art, amazing at maths, amazing at English, but I wasn't clever with anything, even though I tried my hardest.

I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.

I was the kid who never won the races... I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.

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

I'm a perfectly equipped failure.

How my achievements mock me!

I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are at the best second rate.

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.

Oh God, what's wrong with me? Why does nothing ever work out?

Armenag Saroyan was the failed poet, the failed Presbyterian preacher, the failed American, the failed theological student.

I have not been a success, and probably never will be.

If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.

So many times in my life, people have tried to make me a failure.

I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.

It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.

They say there's no second act in American lives. There's something there worth exploring. Giving up an idea of yourself, examining your failure, and seeing if that failure was the system's or yours. What does it mean to not turn out to be the person you want to be?

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

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative.

I have made a number of movies that I have never seen. It's not a matter of ego. It's a matter of being disappointed. It's really a shame. It's just as difficult to make a movie that no one cares about as to make a hit.