Stockard Channing Quotes

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.

It's the broken plans you have made that are the hardest to get over.

My biggest loss was the Olympics. I just can't forget losing. I never will.

Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.

Winning is something you've dreamed about and hoped for, so that when you get there it's no big deal. But if you lose, you're gutted, and the gutted sense just goes on, and I know what that's like, because I've been having that gutted feeling since 1979.

I wanted to cry because it took me so many years

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.

Not being able to end the last game of my college career with a win, it really hurts.

It's always disappointing to lose a final.

Not being in the playoffs is frustrating.

There's a lot of disappointment when you lose a playoff game.

I think a pessimist is just an optimist who has had their heart repeatedly broken.

Manchester United was a sad experience. Things didn't go as I had hoped. I was disappointed, and it didn't help me to rise to the surface.

No matter how well or how bad you play, when you have a chance of winning and you come up a little bit too short, it obviously hits you a little bit. It stinks.

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

It's a terrible thing to have to tell your fans, who have waited like Detroit's have, that their team won't win it this year. But it's better than lying to them.

You play a couple of shows, and these label guys come - and they leave halfway through a show. Then the phone calls just stop. And your heart is broken.

If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.

I think with any sort of rejection, you're angry that you weren't enough for that person.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

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.

It took years, honestly, to deal with the disappointment of Beijing.

After hundreds of auditions and nothing, you're sitting home and wondering, 'What am I doing?'

I'd been told I was going to be the next big thing. But in actual fact, the complete opposite happened.