Tim Matheson Quotes

I feel like my career has been a series of glowing obituaries.

This is a terrible confession to make, but after I left the Army I had a number of things to try. I had a great conceit to think that if all else failed I could always go to Hollywood. So when all else did fail I really went to Hollywood. And then I found out how wrong I was.

Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we'll reach a certain point in our lives, look around and realize that all the things we said we'd do and become will never come to be - and that we're ordinary.

It become totally untenable to me that after acting for 25 years - I've played Juliet, Cleopatra and Anne Frank - there I was, sitting in Hollywood, just waiting for somebody to want me.

I've never felt like my career has been on fire.

A guy will promise you the world and give you nothin', and that's the blues.

I've several times had jobs that I thought were going to be my big break, and it didn't pan out.

Career is a mindset. The wrong mindset. Career is linear. Especially when you are trapped in the TV or film world. The next thing you do has always got to be bigger, or it is perceived as a failure.

The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.

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

You start at SNL when you're young and hungry, but I don't want my pro years to be my SNL years.

The filmmakers who I'm pining to work for aren't ringing my phone off the hook.

It's tragic from how far we've come from 'Hope and Change'.

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

What happens if you're the guy who's been on the show ten years and is highly paid but they have nothing for you to do is that they bring in other people, and you become a supporting character to those people.

When you first start out, you are just happy to get a job, any job. And as time goes on, either you move forward or screech to a halt.

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.

I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.

I don't regret being on television; I just regret the fact that I wanted to be in the movies, and that didn't happen.

I do feel a bit dejected about my film career. I am sad that it didn't take off as expected. I didn't get my due as an actor. I have an attractive personality and good looks. But I don't know what went wrong? You need to stop thinking about such things and move on.

I really don't want to be a journeyman.

If my career isn't moving ahead I may consider TV.

And opportunity doesn't always come. I thought I should have had a head-coaching opportunity a long time ago. Called plays in the Super Bowl. Won the game. No phone calls.

Dreams come true all the time, just not for the dreamers