Giorgio Armani Quotes

I've succeeded at everything except my life.

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.'

Basically, I'm a people pleaser who has a knack for disappointing.

Thinking back to those earlier days, I felt I was weak when I wasn't making movies, and then when I was, I thought I was weak as a family member.

I never wanted to be a writer. I still don't.

You can be in the league and still feel like you're not in the league. That was the point I was at when I left Toronto.

There never were any roles for my kind of acting. That's the story of my life.

Sometimes I feel I'm being animated, but it comes off differently. Unfortunately, I was cursed with these sleepy eyes.

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotencies.

There will always be times where you think, 'What went wrong? Why wasn't that one more popular?' You can't always figure that out, especially if you think you've done the best job you can do and was interesting to you. I mean, 'My Soul to Take,' I thought should have done much better, and I still like that film a lot.

I don't know if there's anything sadder than an actor who hasn't made a good picture, and at least I got a few good ones that will stand the test of time. I feel very fortunate about that.

I think I'm actually much too shy to do any performance art. I admire the big swings those guys take, but I'm not a one-man band.

You can have the platinum album. But, you know, when you still feel like you haven't quite found your place in the world, it kind of gives a crazy offset.

I was just dreaming, and if, if I'd written the book and nobody wanted it, I would have put it in the drawer and said, 'Well, I did that.'

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

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

I basically never believed that I was a commercial actor. Just because of the outcome of many auditions over time. No one hired me.

This is my greatest regret - that my music is not being played, and more people aren't seeing Chubby Checker. That's very painful for me. Many nights, I have tears in my eyes about that.

I wanted so badly to be in a famous band, and it was not happening. I played drums with different bands and with the Blue Man Group in Chicago, but I definitely felt like, 'Wow, I did not picture my life being like this.'

I'm a failed musician rather than a successful writer.

You want to be the best, and you hear a lot of good things about yourself, and then you find out that you're going to debut as a caddy - it's a little gut-wrenching, and it hurt.

I think, for me, with regard to my parents, my biggest fear was not that they would reject me but that I would disappoint them. That by coming out, I would simultaneously dash my own dreams and their dreams for me, and I was afraid of letting them down.

I hated the thought of being just a songwriter.

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

In life, we are told to do or be so many different things and expected to fit so many different expectations; I think that's something I always had a hard time with.