Esther McVey Quotes

The idea that you have a vision of what you're supposed to be, or going to be, or where your kids are going to be - and that that doesn't work out - is always going to be something that's going to affect people and move people.

I'm not married and I don't think that's going to work out for me. I'm not even bitter, I'm just exhausted.

Never in a million years would I have imagined that this is how my life would have ended up. I just thought I would be living in the States, doing a regular job.

I grew up thinking, 'You go to university, you get your degree, you get a job, you get married and then you have a family.' But when I got to the point in my life where I had all those things, and was looking to start a family, I was miserable. I realised I didn't want kids.

When you hang on a little too long, you disappoint your fans, and deep, deep down inside, you're disappointing yourself, and that's the part that hurts you the most.

I know so many people that were really able to lead 'perfect' lives. They meet the right person, they make the babies, they get the jobs, they get the house and it's essentially a smooth ride. That really didn't happen for me.

Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.

My parents wanted me to be smart and be a scholar, and the best I could do was graduate high school.

You know, nothing is ever happily-ever-after. Ever.

Growing up in Rhode Island, I dreamed of a career in law enforcement. That hasn't worked out exactly as I had planned, but life seldom does.

I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always work out.

I feel like I've never been in a film that people have liked before.

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that people do; disappointed in the things that people construct. I want things to be better all the time.

When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do.

There is no way, believe me, despite my name being Winfield, and loving the game dearly. It wasn't in the cards. I didn't know what it was going to take to get here.

I feel like at the Olympics I gave the best performance of my life and I wasn't rewarded for that as an athlete. Yes, my fans and my mom were happy about it, but I didn't win that gold medal.

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.

I think there's a certain time in your life, your late 20s, early 30s, where suddenly lots of your friends have children, and it becomes an issue, an issue for your relationships, an issue in regards to your career. People start asking you about it. It suddenly seems to become all-encompassing. That's something I don't think we can get away from.

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.

My past seems to be way more fascinating for people than my future, which bums me out.

My marriages have been one of the greatest voids in my life.

My whole childhood, I'd been dreaming of this two-point-four children, living in the country - everything was just going to fall into place, and I'd be this perfect mum. And it didn't happen. I was very shocked and disappointed.

With all the awards I've won, you'd think that I'd at least be able to make a living. It's a really terrible situation.

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.