Christina Hendricks Quotes

I had four films one year that were supposed to happen and didn't.

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.

You want good ratings, you want people to like the show, you want to be appreciated for the hard work you put in. You don't always get it. Every show is not beloved.

I've had it where things didn't go well for me with movies or something that got canceled.

There's only so much you can do of trying, finding yourself very close to getting a part and then not getting it.

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

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.

Anyway, it fell through because they ran out of money. That was when I learned not to waste your time getting your hopes up or to believe something until it actually happens. We broke up for various reasons, but it was a good band. Jim and Don produced some magical music.

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.

I had the qualifications, but I was not chosen.

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

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

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

My life has been nothing but a failure.

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

Nothing keeps its promise.

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.

We've heard this before; 'things are bad, we are gonna fix them,' and they remain unfixed.

The world is littered with movies about people that are depressed that either did not come out or are not successful.

Sometimes what someone else does is really not what you expected them to do, which to be honest, sometimes doesn't work.

So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years.

We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting.

Some folks work their hands off up to the elbows to give their young-uns education, and all they do is send their young-uns to Hell.

It's frustrating when you make the efforts but the conditions are not there to make a great tournament.

It's so disappointing to put in your best, hard work and then find the film flopping at the box office for no fault of yours.