Peter Greenaway Quotes

Every time I fumble or drop a ball I am embarrassed.

I love my job and I know I am very lucky but still, if you audition and you don't get it, it still affects you.

I feel the producers really exploited my lack of talent at this time. I looked like an idiot up there. I want to be good, not something that people will laugh at.

I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid.

You have a bad day at the office, four people know. You suck in a movie, everyone knows.

I don't want to end up being some joke on a bad TV series.

I'm gutted, devastated that in front of my own fans I've lost my belt.

When your team loses, everybody gets deflated. And it's hard, and it's challenging.

The problem with golf is I have to deal with a humiliation factor.

It's total bullshit," he said. "The whole thing. Eighty percent survival rate and he's in the twenty percent? Bullshit. He was such a bright kid. It's bullshit. I hate it. But it was sure a privilege to love him, huh?

Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not succeed, or is ashamed of his success.

I couldn't get any jobs, and when that happens, you get so humble it's disgusting. I didn't feel like a man anymore -- I felt really creepy. I was bumping into walls and saying, Excuse me.

It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper.

Now I know what it is like to feel like a total idiot.

I've always considered myself smarter than everyone around me, and sometimes, believe me, I've been ashamed of it. At the least, all my life I've looked away and never could look people straight in the eye.

You think you're going to be on TV a year out of college and you're not. Then you tell people and it's embarrassing. And then it's not a big deal at all.

I tried, it was hard, I quit, the end. Story of my life.

I was on the whole considerably discouraged by my school days... It is not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and left behind at the very beginning of the race.

In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.

The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone.

All I wanted to do was be a hero... But do I ever get to be a hero? All I ever get to be is the stupid goat!" "Don't be discouraged, Charlie Brown... In this life we live, there are always some bitter pills to be swallowed..." "If it's all the same with you, I'd rather not renew my perscription!

He had had a severe shock some weeks earlier, when, having narrowly failed to capture a large grey-brown hare for his dinner, it had stopped at the edge of the forest, looked at him with disdain, and said, 'Well, I hope you're proud of yourself, that's all,' and had scampered off into the long grass

There's nothing more physically exhausting than a sense of failure.

My headshot is a scratch and sniff, it smells like failure and onions.