Disappointing Outcomes Quotes

I always try to plan things out, but they never work out the way I expect.

It's the fate of every executive. He gets in on promises and finds that things can't be fulfilled as he hoped.

It's been a year of many more downs than ups.

I don't like false happy endings, and I don't think the real world is such a forgiving place.

I had been on several shows that were meant to be the big ones, that would go on forever, and they didn't.

I met my share of boys but the end result was always the same - they weren't the right kind of men for me.

After you get what you want you don't want it.

My TV show had been cancelled; nothing else had gone anywhere; some alliances I had made petered out and nothing came of them and I was looking at a long, long year ahead of me in which there was no work on the horizon, the phone wasn't ringing. I had two kids, one of them a brand-new baby, and I didn't know if I would be able to keep my house.

You don't get everything you want. That doesn't exist in this realm.

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.

I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.

So many things I thought I was doing have fallen apart. Until I've finished filming, I don't believe I have the job.

Yesterday's promise, like tomorrow's never comes.

There are times when your films don't work, your phone doesn't ring and you wonder what you have done.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

I know actors with promising careers who get blown out of the business, never to return.

At almost every step in life we meet with young men from whom we anticipate wonderful things, but of whom, after careful inquiry, we never hear another word. Life certain chintzes, calicoes, and ginghams, they show finely on their first newness, but cannot stand the sun and rain, and assume a very sober aspect after washing day.

I don't know anybody who doesn't have a lost decade.

It's never easy to lose. But life is not all sunshine and roses.

There's nothing wrong with having goals, but obsessing over them is often counterproductive because, in reality, achieving a goal isn't always what it's cracked up to be.

I've had it where things didn't go well for me with movies or something that got canceled.

I never lost a little fish - Yes, I'm free to say. It always was the biggest fish I caught, that got away.

Most of the groups I worked with 30 years ago are either dead or dead broke. And it's a shame.