Neal Brennan Quotes

I'd reached the point at West Brom where I'd play well, score goals, set up goals and nothing would come from it. I'd go home, come back the next day and everything would be the same. No reward, no response.

I didn't know I was a good director, and I mean that sincerely. I had done a film a long time ago called 'Cold Around the Heart.' Nobody saw it, and it didn't turn out the way I wanted to.

I was very disappointed that so much of the work I did on The Haunted Mansion didn't arrive in the final cut.

I did my best work in The Mosquito Coast. I know it wasn't such a big hit, but for me it was more meaningful than anything else I'd ever done.

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

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.

Film-making is not liberating. It drains a lot out of you, and it's fulfilling only temporarily. It's a very thankless thing at times. When you're spending all that time on a film, you don't want 40,000 people to see it - it's just not enough. You dream of more.

Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.

No, and in fact I get a bit frustrated, because I'm actually quite good at one-liners, and I've had hundreds of them over the years, and they sink without trace, and I get very frustrated. Every party conference I really work on the speeches, and I always have two or three things I'm quite proud of, and no one ever remembers them.

I studied really hard. But Hollywood never appreciated my talent.

I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day.

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.

All I've ever ended up with in terms of achievements is the movie, some really stupid anecdotes, a bunch of crosswords that I didn't finish and maybe some old bicycle that I found lying around on set.

Lost in a crowd of greats, not a single Oscar. That's showbiz.

I always feel like everything I shoot is a student project, and nobody else knows about it. I forget, in the moment, that other people will see it.

'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.

I feel like I've never been in a film that people have liked before.

You get so tired of having your work die. I just wanted to make something that people would actually use.

I wanted so badly to be in a famous band, and it was not happening. I played drums with different bands and with the Blue Man Group in Chicago, but I definitely felt like, 'Wow, I did not picture my life being like this.'

I very much regret that I haven't been taken more seriously. I would love to have been at the National or the RSC.

After making repeated attempts to change my career trajectory and having those efforts turned down, my passion for playing the role of a WWE Superstar went away.

I'm not going to lie: I fell out of love with football for a little bit because I had some good performances but then just didn't get the chance to play on.

I've been doing stand-up for 15 years and I've never even been invited to the Comedy Awards! How mental is that?

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.