Aya Cash Quotes

I was almost expecting the Olympics to be the biggest thing ever, but it wasn't. It was just another race.

Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.

I loved Herman's Head. And it was a great experience.

Fame was not at all what it was cracked up to be, as far as I was concerned.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

'Vegas' was something very close to me. I had such a blast doing that. I'm still a little upset that we never really got to shoot that final episode. So many people were invested in it. I'll always be sad about that.

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.

It's always disappointing when your work is not received as you hope it would be.

When 'Deadwood' ended, I thought, 'I'll never have this again, ever.'

During my freshman year of college, it became undeniably clear that I didn't want to be great again. I correlated greatness with misery.

There is so much heartbreak and letdown in this industry. You get your heart set on something, and then you're sitting by the phone for three weeks and it never rings.

I do a lot of things, and I'll get excited about them - maybe it'll be a song in a movie - and then it comes out, and you're like, 'Aww, that was cool, but it wasn't quite as big a deal as I thought it would be.'

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.

It's always bitterly disappointing to people to see how normally one can live.

Basically, I'm a people pleaser who has a knack for disappointing.

It's a terrible thing to have to tell your fans, who have waited like Detroit's have, that their team won't win it this year. But it's better than lying to them.

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 thought that when I won the Olympic trials I was going to be the happiest person in the whole world. And I was happy. But it wasn't like I thought it was going to be. I had already imagined it in my head so many times. It was real before it happened.

Being on 'Glee' was amazing. I remember my first day on set, my first day I arrived to the set I was in my trailer and all of the actors came and banged on my door - Lea Michele, Chris Colfer, Amber Riley, Naya Rivera. They all welcomed me with open arms, so it was a great experience. It felt like family, and I miss them a lot over there.

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

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?

I think that if you idealise someone for so long, they can only disappoint and I wouldn't want to be disappointed by those people.

Well, I don't ever get excited. I haven't been excited since I got a Chopper bicycle when I was about 12. Once you get older you realise there's always a catch to everything. So when I get, say, a commission to make a TV show, the catch is that you have to deliver something and then the sense of responsibility overwhelms the joy of the occasion.

And there have certainly been movies I wanted to be in and milestones I wanted to surpass that did not happen.

I'm sorry that 'Fringe' is gone. I really wanted to do more on that show. It was great!