Unsupportive Environment Quotes

When I was seven and told my mom, 'I'm gonna be a writer,' she said, 'Oh, that's a terrible idea. You'll live in misery and die teaching other people's children badly.' My parents wanted the safer path for me, and I think they failed miserably achieving that.

At the end of the day, there are people out there that want to see you fail.

But when I'm losing a few matches, suddenly 'It's his fault', 'He doesn't want to practice', 'He doesn't need it', 'He doesn't care'. And when everything goes well, there are people coming behind the stone, saying, 'Oh, my God, he's back finally, and I was there to help him out'.

They're just my weaknesses. Everyone is just constantly talking to me about it. It doesn't help.

My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, either.

At Wisconsin, I wasn't working for people who believed in me.

It's so easy to just rip someone's work apart.

I caught a lot of flak for being a young mama.

I hate going into the audition room. I find it the most nerve-wracking, inhumane experience, and I think it's such an inhospitable environment to give an honest account of the character and, I guess, your ability.

It's hard to focus on a fight when your heart is broken and you're not happy in your relationship, especially if that's your coach. That's like fighting without one leg.

School was not a good experience. I would get bullied. It was really hard for me to get along with people who didn't have the same goals, so I just wanted to get to California.

My high school coach was a bit of a jerk.

When I was growing up, nobody was really supporting me, especially in L.A.

I didn't have a childhood.

I had a kind of tough early life. I had a tough time in school. I had an unsympathetic family in terms of what I was trying to do. I decided that my family situation was simply hopeless. I kinda bailed out, and my brother and sister didn't. I failed at marriage, which I'm very upset with myself over.

All my life, I heard, 'Stop daydreaming,' 'Get over yourself,' 'You'll never get there,' 'Aim lower,' 'You'll hurt yourself,' from teachers, family, and friends.

The hardest part is just hearing people saying that I won't amount to crap, and that I'm going to be a bust.

I didn't have a childhood.

When I was 14 or 15, I was in a small troupe for teenagers, and I heard somebody say, 'Oh, she'll never get anywhere. She's too common.'

You want positive, go elsewhere. Go find a different lie.

People's behaviour towards you changes when your films don't work. It's a painful period.

When I was in Vojvodina, it is not possible to describe. If you play one bad ball, one little mistake, they are, 'Oh, what is that?' Then, some players, they are afraid to take responsibility. They don't feel well, you know; you don't have freedom to show yourself.

People don't really care to be around you when you're going through tough times.

As I was coming up, there was so much naysaying, there was so much doubt, whether it was from my peers or people in the industry.

Not playing off of an audience is very challenging.