David Holt Quotes

When I look back at those pictures of my mother performing - and listen to her recordings - it makes me sad to think that all of that joy she found in her work came to an end. I wish she hadn't had to make that sacrifice, even if it was for the benefit of my father and siblings and me.

Wishing of all employments is the worst.

Actually, my career as a music director turned out to be a disappointment. I believed I gave good songs but the response and recognition from the industry was not great.

My mother named me after her favorite actor, Joel McCrea, and dressed and presented me as her avatar. I'm sure she wanted to be a performer, but when that was impossible, I was her next best shot.

Every filmmaker has this short book of films that don't get made - for a whole host of reasons.

I was just a normal athlete. My mother tried to spark something in me. She was an athlete in high school before she got pregnant with my older brother. She was 16, and that was it for her when it came to track and her education.

My sleep pattern got disrupted around the time I was taking my O-levels, but in those days nobody really addressed things like that in children.

There is so much heartbreak and letdown in this industry. You get your heart set on something, and then you're sitting by the phone for three weeks and it never rings.

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

I saw everything on my parents, and I said to myself: 'I don't want to live my life like this.' They gave me everything they could but it was not amazing.

There were many times eating ramen noodles and sitting on a friend's couch watching ESPN where I was like, 'This is not what I thought California was going to be like. I thought it was going to be pools and cocktails with umbrellas in them and Maseratis, but this ain't it.'

You can be in the league and still feel like you're not in the league. That was the point I was at when I left Toronto.

You write a spec, and you pour your heart and soul and life into a spec, and you think that spec is the movie that's going to sell and get made... I've never heard of anybody that happened to.

I try not to want any one specific thing to happen because that's then bound to probably not happen. Particularly in Hollywood, I try not to set my hopes on anything.

I never get a role if I audition for it.

Things don't always happen the way one wishes they would.

Sometimes, people don't make the kind of films you want to do.

I've enjoyed so little success as a professional player.

We ceased to be a band the moment we made it. It left us with nothing. We felt like a failure although we had commercial success.

I haven't signed as many films as I'd like to because there are no good roles, as disheartening as it is to say.

It's expensive to get studio space and dancers. My whole first three years, I was sneaking around in the studios and getting kicked out of them. It was kind of depressing.

There never were any roles for my kind of acting. That's the story of my life.

What happened was that the doctor told me that I'd ruptured my kidney from being too busy and being stressed out and not eating right.

I'm going to die unhappy. That's how artists roll!

I ended up moving to Dubai and going into finance after college because of family pressure. I was trying to love it, but I just didn't.