Jenny Eclair Quotes

It seems like I always had to work harder than other people. Those nights when everybody else is asleep, and you sit in your room trying to play scales.

I don't like being bad at anything.

A show is exhausting when it stinks. It's exhausting when you have to work overtime to make something work.

There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.

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.

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

I feel like I didn't really know how to cope with not playing well.

Ninety percent of the time when I'm working, there's this very palpable sensation that I'm doing everything wrong and should just give up.

I'm uncommonly slow to show my work to other people, and by the time I do I've usually exhausted myself so completely that all I really want is for someone to tell me that my efforts have added up to something - not one of my better qualities, I admit.

Acting makes me feel broke again, it makes me feel unaccomplished.

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.

Nothing has ever come easy for me.

I lack confidence as an actor.

There are several times when I walked into a room and just felt like such a sham. That's the problem with auditioning.

Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.

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

Sometimes when you're putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when that work's going to pay off.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

I lost my confidence.

I was perhaps the worst student you have ever seen. You know, I thought I was stupid, all my classmates thought I was stupid, so there was general agreement.

Nothing comes easily for me.

For a long time, I didn't give anything my all. I was so afraid that I'd be crap, so I held myself back.

I won't lie, I've had a lot of discouraging moments in the past years, moments I wasn't sure about things and doubted myself.

It wasn't that I couldn't write. I wrote every day. I actually worked really hard at writing. At my desk by 7 A.M., would work a full eight and more. Scribbled at the dinner table, in bed, on the toilet, on the No. 6 train, at Shea Stadium. I did everything I could. But none of it worked.