Carson McCullers Quotes

Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?

It isn't hard to be an artist and do your money thing. It's much harder to wake up in the middle of the night knowing that you're being ripped off and starting to get this feeling in your stomach almost bordering on bitterness toward people who are saying one thing and doing another.

You think once you've shown what you can do, and your movies have been successful, that snap, you work. So to discover the difference between guys' roles and girls' roles made me plain mad. It's unjust.

Evil lurks where disappointment lodges.

In my own life, hate has consumed me at times. Or envy. When my TV show was canceled, I didn't think it deserved to be canceled because people liked it. It was canceled for the wrong reasons, you know? I was consumed with hate for about a year.

I was banned when I feel I was at my peak, and anyone in my shoes would feel the same way I did and would also have gone through the whole range of emotions that I did.

Injustice drives me crazy! It really upsets me when I see politicians lying.

It is the feeling of injustice that is insupportable to all men.

Frankly, I was extremely jealous of his scenes with Zoe Saldana and I think it's totally unfair that I never got to do that. I will never forgive the writers and the director, for having put me in this position, to have to be watching that, rather than participating.

Many men swallow the being cheated, but no man can ever endure to chew it.

I think I get angry when people cause serious suffering or don't alleviate suffering when they could.

No one was more shocked or angry than I was when we didn't find the weapons. I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do.

I have a huge chip on my shoulder.

There are a few things that make me angry. Mostly things not going my way.

I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

A minority of malcontents, some justly, some unjustly, angry with the present state of things, will always exist in this world.

What hurt most were the people who came up to me and said they lost $1,000 on me. It just makes you mad.

I do feel infuriated by the things I perceive to be unfair.

I'm tired of seeing people dying every day; I'm tired of seeing people go to jail for nothing.

Everyone has days where they don't get their way, where you have to go to bed early or you have too much homework to do or you can't eat the candy that you want or you miss your favorite TV show and, in those moments, you just want to tear the whole world down.

It really hurt me when there was this perception that I didn't want to play for Scotland. I was fuming, absolutely gutted.

All of us have people in our lives who drive us crazy. We've spent hours reliving the unfair, unappreciative, inconsiderate treatment they have inflicted on us. But getting mad at this person makes just about as much sense as getting mad at a chair for being a chair.

One thing I learned from the '88 Olympics: It's not a question of if they can screw you over: it's a question of if they will. It's not the gold medal they took away from me. The medal doesn't mean anything. It's that they said I lost. That experience is well and alive in my mind.

People don't want to give me credit, which is fine.