Dave Davies Quotes

Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome.

I don't feel very optimistic in London.

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

I'm probably the most pessimistic actor I know. I'm always sure I'll never work again.

I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.

I think many experiences are bound to be failures, and sometimes I regret them before they even happen.

I feel not unlike a small boy, waking from a bad dream to find reality not much of an improvement.

Back in Manchester, I was not happy with myself.

Young people who have no future will easily give up their future, which they can't see on the horizon.

Sometimes I get so depressed 'Bout what I haven't done. -NEVER

Worry is the product of a future that we cannot guarantee and guilt is the product of a past we cannot change.

I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened.

My brief flash of relief and confidence melted away. Good thing it did, too. I'm sure the world would come to an end if I were allowed to feel a sense of relief and well-being for any length of time.

The sun is not ridiculous, quite the contrary. On everything I like, on the rust of the construction girders, on the rotten boards of the fence, a miserly, uncertain light falls, like the look you give, after a sleepless night, on decisions made with enthusiasm the day before, on pages you have written in one spurt without crossing out a word.

I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.

I don't feel secure at all. I don't know what actor would feel they've made it. I feel like I'm just starting.

Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

I think that fear comes about when there's things in the world that we want to change, things we're scared or angry about, and we can't change them, and so we become fearful; we develop anxiety.

I'm not a negative person, but every role I go for I don't think I'll get.

I don't much like to look back with the idea that I was doing it wrong then or I'm doing it wrong now.

I was wracked with insecurity.

I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed.

I'm scared of the unknown future.

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