Shawn Colvin Quotes

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

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.

My life has been nothing but a failure.

I've succeeded at everything except my life.

A lot of times, you just don't get the jobs you want to get.

I know it wouldn't seem like I've had a lot of failure in my career, but there are things that I regard as failures, when I look at certain performances and go, 'That's not good enough.'

I've had a terrible career.

For me, not making the playoffs is a wasted season, a waste of time.

Missing the chance to go to the 2007 World Cup was the biggest disappointment of my career.

Expectation brings frustration. Private ambitions bring failures.

At 30 I thought my life was over. I thought I'd have made something of myself by then, that life would somehow have made the necessary arrangements - but actually I had nothing.

I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.

Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked.

Sometimes I feel like a has-been who never was.

You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting... you.

I'm usually convinced that what I'm working on is a total disaster.

In my first few years as an actor, I took one terrible TV job after another. But even as I laughed off my awful roles and made fun of myself to friends, my work made me cringe - I dreaded anyone's seeing it. I was crushed that I wasn't doing anything I was proud of.

I thought 'The Well' was going to launch my career, but nothing happened.

My career is a burden, but I can't just fade out like a pathetic sore loser. More often than not, I'm just making a fool of myself for the hundredth time, and that wasn't part of the plan, initially. I'd be happier not having any kind of public presence whatsoever and just hiding behind the sleeves of the CD.

Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.

I'm disappointed about how my career ended.

Up until the time I was 14 years old, I was sure that I was going to be a big-league baseball player. But that dream came to a rude awakening when I got cut from my high school baseball team.

It's a bad day when you don't get the work done that you need to get done or you don't get it done to the satisfaction.

I'm most scared of failing, of disappointing people.