Langston Hughes Quotes

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore .... Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?

My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner.

If somebody sent me a good script, I would do it, and I mean that, but it never happens. Not once. I can't even point to an exception.

Dreams have consequences.

I haven't shaken my fists at the moon.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

At the end of the day, I've played six years, haven't made the playoffs yet, that burns me and hurts my heart, so I really want to be playing.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

It's no accident that I'm not married and don't have kids yet. Because, despite what I've achieved in my career, I'm always wondering when somebody's gonna tap me on the shoulder and say, 'OK, the gig is up.'

I'm actually not a particularly negative person, but I feel like most things are better when they're not actualized. The motivation that comes from wanting something is so much more driving of people than actually getting it.

I wanted to be a serious actress, but of course that didn't really happen.

I was going to be the next big voice-over thing, of course, in my mind. I didn't.

I've done the thing where I stop being communicative, and I've been on the other side where the other person isn't communicating, and I become frustrated.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

There is so much heartbreak and letdown in this industry. You get your heart set on something, and then you're sitting by the phone for three weeks and it never rings.

The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition.

I wanted to be a dramatic actress. Life doesn't go the way you think it's going to go.

I started writing because I wasn't getting the parts that I wanted.

You never forget the feeling of not getting to the World Series. Yes, it sticks with you.

I wasn't playing at Arsenal, and I was frustrated. I was doing everything I could do, looking after myself, scoring, and playing in the Europa League then when the cup came, but it wasn't enough for me, and I wanted more.

I'd been trying to do this since I was 15, sending out the demo tapes and doing all the things that everyone told me that I should be doing. But no deal - like, never.

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

It's one of the biggest disappointments of my boxing career, not going to the Olympics.