Lauren Lapkus Quotes

And then the really awful thing is that at the end of the day after crying and experiencing things, then you look at what you've written and you're like, 'Hmm, there's half a page that's good here.' Then you throw out everything else.

I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times, it's narcissistic and pointless.

Filming 'The Road to Riches' was surprisingly difficult for me. I learned that going back to career successes and failures can be emotionally exhausting as you are forced to revisit the euphoric highs and painful lows in high speed.

In all honesty, I should have given up this acting lark years ago.

If I had not made strategic choices, I would have had far more access to dramatic roles. But the one thing I don't regret, even about bad choices, is that there's always something you can get out of it.

Everyone who does comedy at my level thinks the same thing: 'What am I doing with my life?'

Being the Bachelorette was an experience unlike anything else. I learned so much about myself during this process and if I were to step into this position again, I'm sure I would learn more.

I don't think there's any disappointment in my career because everything that maybe didn't go my way was a learning experience.

Over the last three years, UCLA has helped me grow as an athlete, a scholar, and a member of the community. I have made some mistakes along the way; however, I am grateful that I made those mistakes backed by such a supportive and positive university so that I could learn from them and better myself.

There were pockets of this career - whatever you want to call it - where I said, 'I've tapped out. I don't want to do this. I'm gonna go be a stage hand. I don't want to do this. I don't want to talk to people. I'm afraid of people. I'm going to walk away from everything that this was and is.'

When I was at the Miss India competition, I was just trying to learn. It was all very new for me, and I was wondering where do I fit in. But it is about enjoying the whole journey.

I find the game fascinating and poker has unlocked parts of me emotionally. I'm enjoying the process but there are moments when I'm really down. It's a ton of travel, it's exhausting, physically and emotionally. It's lonely.

Often during rehearsals, I catch myself thinking, 'God, this is hard. Why am I always choosing such difficult plays to put on?'

When I reached my senior year in high school, I fell into a hole that took a couple of decades to get out of.

I have learned a lot a lot in my three years at Gladbach and developed a feeling for what is best for me. I owe the club a lot.

I am a failed visual artist.

I no longer practice medicine, but I can say that, for me, medicine was easier - and certainly less emotionally turbulent - than writing.

It's amazing to me: when people start their career, you write about maybe a couple of topics, and you find that as you grow older, a lot of those topics never resolve, because I think your job as a writer is to pose questions as you see them. I don't know if we're supposed to give answers to people, because I don't know if we have any.

I've made a lot of dumb mistakes, but I don't regret them at all.

I'm very picky; I'm never happy with anything. It's so hard to give the record away and accept that you're done.

God knows I tried to make it earlier in life, but with all due respect to myself, nothing I ever did was any good.

I wouldn't change a thing about this journey. It was the best teacher I've ever had and was everything I could've hoped for.

In hindsight, my darkest time came when I was an idol trainee. My future was uncertain and I always had to ask myself, 'Will I be able to debut?' It was physically and mentally exhausting sometimes.

Some days I feel good about my work, and sometimes I feel I've never written anything worthwhile. That's par for the course.

In my career, I have learnt how to handle failures in a matured manner.