John Rocha Quotes

Unhappiness lies in that gap between our talents and our expectations.

Next year, if no one gives me any work, that's fine. I'm not going to do well anyway. I'm not an actor, I'm just exploiting this industry.

I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

Sometimes I feel like a has-been who never was.

There have been times I almost got a persecution complex. I felt like people wouldn't let me grow up. They always saw me as a smiling kid or goofy teenager, no matter how much I'd changed.

Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.

Every day I realized I would not be a star.

I spent an awful lot of my life underestimating myself and, as a result, not exceeding my own expectations.

I didn't do very well at school, and I suppose I've always had this sense, you know that, of being average, so I've been a bit low on self-confidence in my ability.

I think people look at me and don't expect much. Even though, I expect a whole lot.

Actors live dependent on being validated by other people's opinions. I don't understand what it is I do that people want. I don't know what an actor does. I have no credentials. I don't know what I'm doing.

The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing.

The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.

You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder.

I almost wish I could be more exciting, that I could match what is happening out there to me.

Many feel discouraged because they have not measured up to their potential.

Having been built in the fashion I was as a child - created and then deflated - has left me with a distinct feeling of failure. Because I did not live up to my precocity, I experience it to be like a cross between a has-been and a never-was.

I'm a dreamer, and I'm a perfectionist, and I love excellence, and that's hardwired in me. But when I was young, I lived in a space for a long time where I only felt insufficient.

During my freshman year of college, it became undeniably clear that I didn't want to be great again. I correlated greatness with misery.

I don't think people in England ever saw the best of me.

I kind of felt like I was never good enough. I always wanted more.

I think I've underachieved quite heavily.

I'd have thought my particular brand of quirkiness, combined with sharp intelligence and a fine voice, would have yielded more. But it hasn't. Yet!

I have to stop watching the Olympics. It just reminds me that I forgot to try really hard at something.