Jamie Muir Quotes

The idea that you have a vision of what you're supposed to be, or going to be, or where your kids are going to be - and that that doesn't work out - is always going to be something that's going to affect people and move people.

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.

Unfortunately, not all stories end positively.

Life sometimes doesn't work out exactly as we plan or hope for.

Nothing's worse than telling your family you got a pilot, hearing the pilot got picked up, and then finding out it's not in the fall lineup.

Nothing keeps its promise.

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

I had been on several shows that were meant to be the big ones, that would go on forever, and they didn't.

I had four films one year that were supposed to happen and didn't.

I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always work out.

'Gimme a Break' ran for six years and gave me the kind of money and freedom that I'd dreamed would make me happy. It didn't.

I trained myself to not get my hopes up, because there were so many times in the room where you'd be like, 'This feels amazing, this is a hit!' And it never saw the light of day.

We always enter competitions to win but things don't always happen the way we want.

You want good ratings, you want people to like the show, you want to be appreciated for the hard work you put in. You don't always get it. Every show is not beloved.

I had the qualifications, but I was not chosen.

If you don't score, and you have chances, you are disappointed.

Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're happy it just stays out of jail.

The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.

You think that your life is going to be one way, and then, for various reasons or whatever, it doesn't work out.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

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

I've learned the hard lesson that you can't pin your heart on anything until it's a completely done deal.

I never promised you a rose garden.

I thought 'The Well' was going to launch my career, but nothing happened.