Nancy Sinatra Quotes

So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.

My life has been nothing but a failure.

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

I have made a number of movies that I have never seen. It's not a matter of ego. It's a matter of being disappointed. It's really a shame. It's just as difficult to make a movie that no one cares about as to make a hit.

It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.

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.

When I lost my first record deal, my wife and kids and I lost - I wouldn't say friends, but - we lost a lot people around us. They just vanished! They were nowhere to be found. I couldn't get a break, and I couldn't get people to even respond to my emails about songs, no matter how good something was.

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.

I assumed no one would ever listen to my music, and for quite a lot of years, I was right.

Not many people get that 'happily ever after' they want in life. There are disappointments every step of the way, no matter how hard one strives for the best.

After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.

It is hard when you think you can do better, but things just aren't working out.

You have a lot of guys who've been given opportunities in the league. I'm not one of those guys.

Manchester United was a sad experience. Things didn't go as I had hoped. I was disappointed, and it didn't help me to rise to the surface.

I had the qualifications, but I was not chosen.

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.

You play a couple of shows, and these label guys come - and they leave halfway through a show. Then the phone calls just stop. And your heart is broken.

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

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

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?

Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.

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.

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.

Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.