A show is exhausting when it stinks. It's exhausting when you have to work overtime to make something work.
Nobody in Hollywood ever sets out to make a bad movie ever but about 99% of the time, that's what happens.
Failure affects me hard.
Because an appeal makes logical sense is no guarantee that it will work.
Sometimes, even the very best course of action fails.
I can't say that I knocked on every door, but the few that I did didn't respond the way I wanted them to, so I think it was kind of disenchanting enough for me to go back to being subterranean.
The only guest star I really wanted to get but didn't was Bruce Springsteen.
I was apprehensive about bringing off this Homer.
I wasn't a No. 9, as everyone believes today. Every time I played as a No. 9, I failed.
If you play a bad game, you can't say it was because you were injured.
Failure is unfortunately as common as success.
It hurts when you are at a club you loved, a place where you think you might want to end your career, and things go badly.
Actually I think I have forgotten how it was back then. Or probably not - I didn't qualify. There were only 16 cars in the race.
I was trying to get an audition for 'Walker, Texas Ranger' and they wouldn't see me. And I was crestfallen, because I really needed money. And to be told you're not good enough to be seen by 'Walker, Texas Ranger' is a tough blow.
One falls to the ground in trying to sit on two stools.
These people were not even good burglars. They were bungelers.
What I created got abominated.
It was the fact that they tried so hard that doomed them.
Nobody likes to lose 3-0.
Sometimes, despite your best efforts, the end result does not match the expectations. '10 Enradhukulla' is still a movie very close to my heart.
Yes, it is true that I wanted to direct Rajinikanth in 'Bhoothakkannadi,' and I even narrated the story to him. But the project never materialised.
By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.
It was hard every time I found out that I was not in the starting XI.
No matter how much money you have or what kind of cocoon you live in, the reality is that you have lost a game of football and let England's fans down. We are bothered.
My first short story sale was to a magazine that sat on the story forever... and never did publish it.
