Anne Bronte Quotes

A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.

MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.

With every interview you feel like you lose a piece of yourself, and with every bad review you become just that little bit more bitter. It is horrible in a way.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

I'd love to sell out completely. It's just that nobody has been willing to buy.

You watch award shows, and not only are you not nominated, but you're not a presenter and haven't been invited to any of the parties.

Nobody wants to hear me sing! I can sing, but nobody wants to be there for it.

There has never been a company that has wanted me, which sounds insane.

It's easy to feel spurned, especially when you return to your apartment and stare at the hundreds of rejection letters tacked to your bulletin board.

Actually, I was a little rejected at first. I kind of got slapped down.

I more remember the periods of time when I wasn't getting any auditions. That's more what I find painful in memory; that feeling of not even getting the chance to try and be rejected.

Thank you for nothing.

We've been trying to sell out for years, nobody's buying!

I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.

What I created got abominated.

I thank you for nothing, because I understand nothing.

I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go

My writing has always been met with derision or dismissal.

I've had that experience many, many, times - when you don't get roles. I'd developed a good muscle for shaking it off.

The city has always been an embodiment of hope and a source of feeling guilt; a dream pursued, and found vain, wanting, and destructive.

I stared at her. Maybe I wasn't the brightest guy in the world when it came to girls, but I was pretty sure Rachel had just dumped me, which was lame considering we'd never even been together.

Being on "SNL" was a goal that I had when I was younger. When I got fired, I just felt really mad and I felt really grossed out by the system and grossed out by myself and it just sort of knocked me on my ass.

Sometimes if I'm not playing well on stage, I'll purposely play even worse; I'll tear it apart, because I'm so disgusted with what I'm playing that I'll go the wrong route: instead of trying to make it better, I'll go the other way and really make myself sound bad. Which is a kind of a strange outlook I suppose, really.

Do you know how much thinking and feeling I’ve done? It’s terrible. And nothing’s come of it.

Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to me.