Jason Segel Quotes

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.

Being fired from a show - being fired in any way, in any instance, any business - is just hard.

And I didn't, that's why my career was very short lived.

I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth - that I hadn't set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if 'The Big Trail' had been a success and launched me as a star.

I foolishly thought that if I just 'made it' then everything would be okay. And everything wasn't okay.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they are both pumping gas now.

Life doesn't always end up with a bow wrapped around it.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

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

I was naive enough to think that I could make the difference.

When I was 22, I was thrown out of graduate school and then fired from three jobs in a row at higher and higher salaries where I saved nothing.

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

It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

People saying, 'Life didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.' Welcome to the club. I wanted to be the starting center-fielder for the Boston Red Sox, for chrissakes!

Getting fired was always a big deal to me. It's a bit like having someone break up with you.

I studied acting in school and then, of course, couldn't get an acting job.

I intended to be famous by the time I was 16 and rich by the time I was 20. Curiously, it didn't pan out!

I had some great high points and thought: 'This is fantastic. I'm going to be a huge star.' Then something happens, and you can't get a job to save your life.

The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

I've been telling people 'I'm going to go to California, and I'm going to be a big star' since the womb, but lately it was immediately followed by, 'Would you like soup or salad with that?'

You expect certain things. You build up in your mind how it's supposed to go down. When you get a record deal, you think you're supposed to get X, Y, and Z. It doesn't happen like that. You're like 'Oh, this isn't as exciting as I thought it was going to be.'

When I finished the juniors I felt, perhaps for about a year and a half, that everything was going to be the same and that I would be able to go out there and win any match. But it wasn't the case. I struggled.

The demise of Constellation is not the death of a dream. It's just the end of an illusion.