Danielle Steel Quotes

It's hard when you put a year of good work into something and someone at the top says no, and they pull your show's title off a bulletin board and chuck it in the trash.

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

It's so disappointing to put in your best, hard work and then find the film flopping at the box office for no fault of yours.

Sometimes you just give everything you have, and you do your absolute best, and it doesn't stack up.

Most of the stuff I've written has never even gotten made. It's par for the course. It's a great living, but it also gets very frustrating.

The hardest thing as an actor is that you work really hard constantly for these roles, and you invest so much in it. And when they don't come to fruition and nobody sees them, there's a part of you that dies a little bit. It's like, 'Ah! But I worked so hard!' But that's the business.

And it's always possible that you will not get a nice review. So - and that's enraging of course, to get a bad review, you can't talk back, and it's sort of shaming in a way.

As soon as he hit it, I thought I had it. But I lost it when it went into the lights. I did my best.

Before 'Whiplash,' I'd had a string of failed scripts. I'd pour my blood, sweat and tears into them, and no one would like them.

Every now and then you dig a dry hole.

When my films don't do well, I'm hurt and surprised. It's discouraging.

'Generations,' we slaved over for a year; we worked it over and over and over again, and in the end, it just fell short.

I assumed no one would ever listen to my music, and for quite a lot of years, I was right.

Whenever you put so much time and effort into one single game, and you go out there and lose, it sucks.

Some losses are harder to take than others. You can lose and play well. It is when you lose and don't do the things you worked on and don't do what you say you would that is difficult.

Sometimes hard work doesn't pay off.

I was told I was going undrafted. That's what I was told by everybody. I guess I wasn't good enough in everybody else's eyes.

A lot of work is going in, and it's not paying off. And it's becoming very frustrating for me.

So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.

I'm disappointed that I really haven't been able to race in a way that is reflective of the amount of work that I have done and how I have trained. But I don't regret giving this a go.

You study all your life, you work really hard to do your best work onstage and onscreen, and then you make your best money playing an ant.

I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.

I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

Losing hurts me. I was determined to be the best.