Naseeruddin Shah Quotes

Some people will always be disappointed.

I usually hate most of my work: probably at least more than half of it.

It must be horrible to do things that you don't like hoping to please other people, and they don't like it either, and you've got to eat it.

I find it incredibly annoying going to every race to finish seventh, or even fifth.

You know you can't satisfy anybody.

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.

If you don't score, and you have chances, you are disappointed.

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

I hate not giving the people what they want.

Why go through life feeling cheated? It does nothing but make you bitter.

I don't get too much work to begin with, and whatever I get is mostly not good enough.

If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest.

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.

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

It's always discouraging when you don't have things go your way. They are frustrated just like the rest of us.

I can't get no satisfaction.

My family was never happy with me. I could just say that across the board.

I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?

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

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.

My life has been nothing but a failure.

You finish a movie and you think, there, you've done it, really well, or best you can. But if you watch it, you see it was just bollocks.

What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.

In regards to the reaction to Life Is Killing Me, I would say that I'm never happy about anything.

I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied.