Unheard Voice Quotes

I have not been taken seriously as an actor.

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

A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.

They all knew my name, but no one heard the music - I didn't look the same.

I mean, I'm an artist by nature; no one considers what I do and no one knows who the heck I am, but that anybody does - it is astonishing.

I always sang in English. It's just that nobody heard me.

All my life I feel like I haven't been heard.

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

Like a lot of us, sometimes I'm preaching to the choir, and sometimes my voice doesn't even get heard at all. Sometimes I think that what I'm writing now might not even have an impact for the next three or four generations. Sometimes I sit there and write, and I think, "It'll be two hundred years before they get what I'm writing about."

It is true that I am still permitted to cast my vote, but I do so with the foreknowledge that it will not count .... My membership is at once a fraud and a farce.

I think I have some interesting things to say and I don't think anybody out there is saying them.

I was tired of playing a ghost.

I have the soul of a singer and do splendidly in the shower but the world will never hear it. Basically, I'm the only Irish person who can't carry a tune.

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

As screenwriters, we struggle with our own success. We have wallpapered our world and now we can't get anyone to notice the picture we just hung.

I learned at a young age that my voice was not wanted or heard, so I went silent. I did what I was told and set goals based on what everyone else expected of me.

Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?

People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.

It's quite frustrating taking a back seat in films.

I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notices.

To be used in a part without depth is a frustrating feeling, when you know you have something to give.

I thought it was a wonderful line - right on the cutting room floor.

I have years of saying ideas that are not listened to. Then, weeks after, of producers finding out that I was right when some other guy comes in and says it. Sometimes I just tell my idea to my editor or to some other guy with maybe gray hair to share it, and then it's brilliant!

I never did anything original my whole childhood. I was invisible.

I've never wanted to hear.