Bibb Graves Quotes

Everyone thinks offers are always pouring in. Offers have never poured in. Never. I was auditioning a lot, but I didn't get the jobs.

You get so close, a lot of close calls, and then it just doesn't happen. That's just the way the industry is. It's very difficult.

We always enter competitions to win but things don't always happen the way we want.

I seem to play a lot of losers.

I did everything I could to establish myself, but it just didn't work that way. I'm not angry about that.

All the conscious decisions that I have taken in my life have never borne fruit. Not even come close! So, I am just very happy not planning.

It is not possible to spend on one thing and then not have consequences on something else.

There's only so much you can do of trying, finding yourself very close to getting a part and then not getting it.

A lot of people don't realize it, but I've a lot less success than I've have had success.

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

The worst part about not playing is when you think that you are ready to do it. You try to get more minutes, taking the chances, but you end up in a situation where things have not gone well for you for weeks - or for years. That is like swimming wet clothes.

The memories for the missed opportunities are stronger than for the ones I managed to get over the line in.

I had no release in 2013. I worked on four films; none of them saw the light of day.

I have done so many stupid commercials and terrible other little projects that never went anywhere and just ended up being terrible.

Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss.

I don't know what exactly the translation is but when we do consume something now, something else has to give at some point.

We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.

Great news for someone is always bad news for someone else

A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.

I came to the conclusion that unrealized hopes, even small ones, were always wrenching.

Sometimes things don't turn out the way you want them to, Haven. Sometimes the people you choose to believe are wrong.

Choosing a path means having to miss out on others

I walked away a little disheartened, thinking, 'Oh well. I came a long way to meet the Wizard of Oz, but I guess I won't. Such is life.

What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.

Picking the team isn't difficult, it's who to leave out.