Jeff Lindsay Quotes

I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did.

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

When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.

Some might have liked us more if we had intervened less ... some might have disliked us less if we had intervened more, but ... having concluded that we intended to intervene no more and no less than we actually did, nobody had any use for us at all.

Why the hell didn't I know about this?

Politics is a sucker’s game …

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.

I've always been the Rodney Dangerfield of this game. Maybe it was meant to be that way, but that always drove me.

Modeling sucks.

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

I assumed no one would ever listen to my music, and for quite a lot of years, I was right.

I've been called so many names and been written off by so many people who just say, 'Whatever happened to this guy?'

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

It's hard to keep a positive attitude coming to work every day, feeling like you're getting better when the same result is losing.

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.

There never were any roles for my kind of acting. That's the story of my life.

When I lose a big game, I am angry and always in a bad mood, and I will talk about other stuff to bring attention away from my team also.

It's the most annoying thing, when you've got the answers, but you're not heard.

I know how much I put in and it does hurt when people say you are not trying.

Me being nice or positive is not what people want to hear, which sucks.

I'm always going to be overlooked. That's just how it is. That's how the league is.

I never got a lead role and I make no bones about it.

I'm so lucky in my life, but I'm so unlucky in my abilities. I love art so much, but I'm unable to produce it. I can't even draw a dog that doesn't look like a horse.

Before, I was always the kid that was in the background. It was hard for me to get casted in even one program, and when people thought that I was a guest on a show for the first time when I had been on before, it saddened me. Suddenly getting the spotlight? That's! Not! True!