Unappreciated Talent Quotes

Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.

I thought I had swell ideas, and wonderful musicians, but the hell of it, no one else did.

When a manager doesn't have any interest in you, you can see that as a player.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

Italy to me is like the mean mother. Whatever I do, it's never good enough. People say I'm the queen of Cannes, but in Italy I get turned down for work.

No, and in fact I get a bit frustrated, because I'm actually quite good at one-liners, and I've had hundreds of them over the years, and they sink without trace, and I get very frustrated. Every party conference I really work on the speeches, and I always have two or three things I'm quite proud of, and no one ever remembers them.

Nobody wants to hear me sing! I can sing, but nobody wants to be there for it.

I feel like my wrestling and jiu-jitsu is so underrated.

People don't give Yachty the credit that he deserves.

When you make something that you're really proud of, and it doesn't do well, you can live with it. The hard part is when you make something that you have to compromise on and it doesn't do well.

I've been in so many good movies that I felt like nobody saw; it's a pretty dreadful feeling.

Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be; since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier.

Some superior minds are unrecognized because there is no standard by which to weigh them.

People seem to have this idea that I've always been very ambitious. Nothing could be further from the truth.

I started out as a juggler, so I know what it means to spend eight hours a day, seven days a week practicing something that people just dismiss with a wave of hand.

We'd played for years to half-empty clubs in England.

I've said this before, but I've always felt more comfortable playing the guy who thinks he's the hot shot or thinks he's the greatest and is so far from it, you know? The misguided character. That's always more interesting to me - especially with a comedy. I've always felt inside more like a character actor.

In Arlington, people would laugh at you if you tried to get people to look at your drawings or listen to your poetry. It was like you thought you were special.

Even though we were selling more records than a lot of pop acts, we were being treated like the redheaded stepchildren.

I'm not a media darling. I'm forever the outsider, for whatever the reason is.

TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.

I used to say to my auntie, 'You throw my fu*kin' poetry out, and you'll regret it when I'm famous,' and she threw the bast*rd stuff out. I never forgave her for not treating me like a fu*kin' genius or whatever I was when I was a child.

A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.

Genius is never understood in its own time.

I've given up trying to understand what people think about me. It seems like a lot of people don't like the music we make and don't know me, or something.