Unsatisfied Expectations Quotes

No man who ever held the office of President would congratulate a friend on obtaining it. He will make one man ungrateful, and a hundred men his enemies, for every office he can bestow.

Every time I watch a performance, I'm disgusted with how I've skated. It's very hurtful for me.

Every time I create an appointment, I create a hundred malcontents and one ingrate.

Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.

Every child is taught if you try to please everyone, you end up upsetting everyone.

For so many years, I thought I wasn't good enough.

It is impossible to please all the world

Regardless of what I do, no matter how good it is, it's never, in my mind, 'flawless.'

You don't wanna see your work, because you might find out that you do not like it.

Actors are programmed to see the worst. If you're talking about an actor's TV series, you say, 'I loved you last night.' And they go, 'What about the week before?' They immediately worry.

I know my Republican friends were glad to see my wife feeding an elephant in India. She gave him sugar and nuts. But of course the elephant wasn't satisfied.

Look, any amount I make, somebody's going to be mad.

I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.

I will say, there's not an episode in existence where whatever didn't come out the way I wanted it to or is an actual mistake that won't nag at me until the end of the time.

I was playing and having a lot of success, but I also felt a lot of criticism behind it. I didn't know why.

It is hard to watch myself. I'm hypercritical, and it's difficult to watch a performance when I may end up being at odds with it - wishing I'd done something differently or that they had edited it a certain way.

Some actors are like flowers basking in the sun - they love the attention, and the fans get what they want. With me it's different. I know the fans aren't getting what they want. And I'm certainly not getting what I want.

I relate to the feeling that Da Vinci was often plagued by the idea that what he did wasn't good enough, that he was his harshest critic. He'd sometimes destroy what he was working on.

If you try to please everybody, somebody's not going to like it.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

It is too exhausting to try and make everyone happy or pretend.

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

I was not getting much time on the pitch and was in need of this time to improve and play my best football. Wenger was not prepared to give it to me. Also my position on the wing was not what I was expecting and I wasn't happy with it.

I don't want to always be the tortured, soulful wife.

The worst thing about being on the road is all you want to do when you get home is to stay home, but as soon as you get back, all the wife wants to do is go out because she's been stuck home all the time you've been stuck on the road.