Scott Thompson Quotes

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?

Why go through life feeling cheated? It does nothing but make you bitter.

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.

We always enter competitions to win but things don't always happen the way we want.

Expectations are resentments under construction.

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

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.

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

I had a beautiful childhood, so my adulthood has been really frustrating because it's - half the time it hasn't been as good as my childhood.

There's a disappointment there because I still feel there's an emptiness in my career that just wasn't filled.

You never get every job you want.

The 2001 tour to Australia would have been a great highlight in my career if the Lions had won the series. That might sound strange because it was a great tour in many ways, but, for me, the more time goes by, the less of a career highlight it becomes, and just more of a frustration.

Hope deferred makes the heart sick.

I've had a terrible career.

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.

You know you can't satisfy anybody.

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

I have stopped expecting from films. What I expect never happens.

Things don't always work out as you want them to.

I've had a chip on my shoulder every year that I've played.

I never got a lead role and I make no bones about it.

The damnable frustration of revenge. Revenge is for dreams...never for reality.

Expectations are resentment waiting to happen.

I had a lot of frustrations about my career. A lot of, you know, times where I felt I should've been considered for a part that I wasn't considered for.

The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.