Patti LuPone Quotes

When I was at Kingsoft, I was under pressure and worked hard, but the results were not satisfactory.

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

Sometimes hard work doesn't pay off.

There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.

I've got this horrible feeling that I'm one of those people who'll always have to flog their guts out to get anywhere.

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

Sometimes it's hard. I'm not going to lie. It's tough. You feel like you're killing yourself, and you're giving it all you've got, and you're just not seeing it.

It's frustrating when you make the efforts but the conditions are not there to make a great tournament.

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.

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

It was the fact that they tried so hard that doomed them.

If you work so hard to reach your goal but you lose your pole in the very last run, that's hard to take.

The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet.

A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.

On my tombstone it will say: 'I tried everything - nothing was easy.'

There's only so much you can do of trying, finding yourself very close to getting a part and then not getting it.

Nothing comes easily for me.

It wasn't that I couldn't write. I wrote every day. I actually worked really hard at writing. At my desk by 7 A.M., would work a full eight and more. Scribbled at the dinner table, in bed, on the toilet, on the No. 6 train, at Shea Stadium. I did everything I could. But none of it worked.

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.

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.

Every now and then you dig a dry hole.

All the things you do, even the shows that don't work, are as much work, but you learn more from the things that are difficult.

Many people do not know how hard I work. There are many days I work more than 18 hours.

You try to be the best you can and sometimes it ain't damn good enough.

It's so frustrating to be working so hard and know that it's not going anywhere and it doesn't matter.