Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.
The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.
I feel like at the Olympics I gave the best performance of my life and I wasn't rewarded for that as an athlete. Yes, my fans and my mom were happy about it, but I didn't win that gold medal.
My father never saw me play ball, and I was an outstanding ballplayer. I missed all that adoration.
Success cannot be advertised: failure cannot be explained. In the work of intelligence, heroes are undecorated and unsung, often even among their own fraternity.
It's so frustrating to be working so hard and know that it's not going anywhere and it doesn't matter.
Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
You get so tired of having your work die. I just wanted to make something that people would actually use.
I think efforts sometimes don't get rewarded.
I have spent so much time and so much energy making other people's children stars.
I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.
My acting is still being recognized for the fact that I wasn't nominated.
I was always working; it's just that no one was paying attention.
You were always told that if you worked hard, you would get somewhere. But so many people feel they have worked hard and they have nothing to show for it.
I was very disappointed that so much of the work I did on The Haunted Mansion didn't arrive in the final cut.
While I revel in the memories of my own Grammy moment, I also know how it feels to walk away empty-handed.
It is tough when you don't play for a while and a couple of games go by when, you've worked hard to be ready, but then aren't involved.
There are so many people who try so hard and have such big dreams, and it doesn't happen for them.
We have won laurels for the country in wrestling but still, in spite of winning medals, not many people recognised us.
There are actors who have never gotten an Oscar and have done amazing work.
If you want to get into the creative world, you have to just keep flogging away even when nobody's paying attention. Because then when somebody finally does pay attention, it's certainly a lot more interesting when you have a ton of stuff to show.
I feel that I have not got my due in films. However, I did a lot of good work on television and that's why I never got typecast.
Being a Mets fan is like lending someone a lot of money and you just know that you'll never get paid back.
Always, I seemed to just miss out. Why, I wasn't even the most valuable senior athlete in my high school in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.
I never felt that AC Milan had full confidence in me.
