Greg Davies Quotes

If you're doing a job, and you secretly want to do a different job, you start to blame the job. I was blaming the teaching for that fact I wasn't performing. I really felt I needed to follow a comedy career.

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?

I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.

Modelling wasn't a passion of mine, so that made it get old kind of quickly. I was getting very frustrated.

I'm disappointed about how my career ended.

I was 36, and I had decided to quit acting because it was so disappointing.

You always have the nightmare of, you know, working with the guy that you've just admired forever, and then he's just totally disengaged and awful to be around.

After 2000 or so, I started to realize I wanted to be doing something else. I didn't want to be in front of a camera. I was frustrated. I didn't think I would stop acting, but I didn't want to be seen.

It's always bitterly disappointing to people to see how normally one can live.

I can't get no satisfaction.

I never made a film which fully satisfied me.

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.

Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.

When our daughter was born, a light went on for me - there was more to life than what I was doing. It felt like being famous for being a paint salesman. It wasn't the dream I was sold on. I'd had enough of it.

Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.

I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.

I was dissatisfied just being an actor.

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

I resented that my career wasn't going the way that it was supposed to. And I was angry that I wasn't getting the parts that I wanted.

So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents.

Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual

What I think is frustrating for Americans is that it feels like more was going to change with Obama.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

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.