Greta Gerwig Quotes

I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.

I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.

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.

We can spend our whole lives underachieving.

I have not been a success, and probably never will be.

My England captaincy was not the England captaincy I wanted, that's what will live with me for a long time.

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.

I look around at people who had success so early and then didn't know what to do with themselves.

My mother has always been unhappy with what I do. She would rather I do something nicer, like be a bricklayer.

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

It's a terrifying thing to be perhaps 16 or 17 and feel like you are a failure and a has-been.

When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also.

All I wanted was attention from girls when I was a kid. Then I got my braces off, and then there was too much attention, and I was also mad that they didn't pay attention to me in the first place. Then I was just like, I couldn't put on blinders and focus on one because there were too many options.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

I have two books that were published quite some time ago. I start to read about three sentences. I have to close it. I am so self-conscious. Who did I think I was?

I was afraid of not living up to what people expected me to be.

'The Stepford Wives' was too big, and it was unsatisfying to do. Not that it was unsatisfying to do, but it was unsatisfying as a result because, as much as I loved parts of it, and I'm really proud of so much of it, the entire movie wasn't what I wanted it to be. It's my own fault; I didn't follow my instincts.

I'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really.

Being in Los Angeles is this brutal awakening, where I feel not good enough as soon as I walk into a room, and I'm wearing the wrong thing, or I don't have enough make up on. It's all about image.

No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it's not enough.

I was terribly shy when I was growing up, I really wasn't confident with other people and I think I was always afraid of up or not being this very cool, amazing person that I wanted to be.

Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version.

I don't know what to do if I am not inspiring some sort of false fascination.

This I regard as a classic example of my not being properly prepared for a part I very much wanted.

I remember rehearsing it, and it was the one that we were really excited about and thought would sound the best, and once it was down on tape, it was like, This doesn't actually sound that good.