Unrewarded Efforts Quotes

…would…before he could in any way benefit his friends or the state, come to an untimely end without doing any good to himself or others.

I feel like I've never been in a film that people have liked before.

Not many people get that 'happily ever after' they want in life. There are disappointments every step of the way, no matter how hard one strives for the best.

I'd been trying to do this since I was 15, sending out the demo tapes and doing all the things that everyone told me that I should be doing. But no deal - like, never.

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

I was very unhappy when I used to record and things wouldn't turn out the way I would want to, because I was being such a nice girl. I wouldn't complain when things were going wrong.

Good priests never look for awards and, perversely enough in the clerical culture universe, do not receive many. Like the aged nuns who taught selflessly and nearly anonymously all their lives, these servants of the People of God only get into the papers when their obituaries are printed.

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.

I, poor creature, worn out with scribbling for my bread and my liberty, low in spirits and weak in health, must leave others to wear the laurels which I have sown, others to eat the bread which I have earned. A common case.

I don't like to think of anyone waking up every morning amazed that things haven't gone their way in life.

I didn't get paid for performances most of my life. If I did, I would be billionaire now, and I'm not.

Everything I've done in my career has been for nothing.

Sometimes I feel like a has-been who never was.

I met someone the other night who's 28 years old, and he hasn't worked a day since he left college because he's pursuing a dream he'll never, ever realize: He thinks he's a great singer. Actually, he's crap.

Disbelievers will not be successful.

I used to not get work even on TV, but wherever I went, they'd treat me with respect but never offer work.

I thought nothing would ever happen for me. My whole life had been geared toward being a singer, and it wasn't clicking.

Sadly, my father died before I graduated, so he didn't see any of the success at all.

When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.

The world has not promised anything to anybody

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.

Loving an old bachelor is always a no-win situation, and you come to terms with that early on, or you go away.

My parents were ambitious people, my father especially, whose entire life was devoted to rising above, but his ambitions were defeated long before death finished them off, and so when he died, he came back to where he started, but he didn't come back home, because there was no home to come back to.

There's a lot of pain in my heart because what I accomplished was second to none. I'm not losing any sleep, but I do pay attention every year at this time.