Cameron Mackintosh Quotes

I could not keep my success. I had such a great run. By 93-94, it all came to an end and I had to go to Bangladesh and work there.

Ten years into it, I can finally go, 'Oh, I just want to make a record that's fun to make and I don't have to prove that I deserve to be here.'

I failed to fulfill what should have been an interesting role. I couldn't take their formula and bring what I had, my humor, my ideas, and make it my own.

I've had friends who did pilots, and I'd say, 'What happened to that?' and they'd say, 'It didn't go,' and it literally goes into a void of nothingness because no one gets to see it. All that money and talent and time put into it.

I was in the wilderness of Hollywood for almost ten years. I was off the studio lists. I wasn't getting the roles offered to actors that hadn't done a third of the roles I had done or had the popularity I had.

The Yardbirds sort of disbanded, and I was disappointed because I thought what we were doing was really good. I thought we were really onto something. I thought I was really onto something with these ideas that I had.

There are so many songs in me that haven't been born yet. So I can't call myself a genius, but I never turn away a compliment, and I feel like I'm on my way to that mountain.

If I hadn't gotten into the entertainment business, I would be probably making minimum wage still.

I struggled for many, many years following 'Music and Lyrics' - I mean really struggled.

I look back upon my times when more people were listening to what I had to say, and I didn't say enough.

Barry Bonds was still young when his father's fall began. Although Bobby still continued to put up good numbers year after year, he never lived up to expectations.

Most of the time, with artists like me who go on to become superstars, you never see them when they are still lost and trying to figure life out.

I think it's a pity for him that my father didn't have the pleasure of seeing me grow up. I think he missed out on something. But it doesn't matter. It's boring. I don't have any anger about it.

Who sees Wanderlei Silva today, with all the marketing, with a good gym and getting paid well to fight, they don't know the difficulties I went through. I went through a lot of hardships in my life.

I'm grateful that I didn't get thrown into the limelight at 19-years-old.

There was a time when I had no work, and I had to sit at home for 4 years.

Not only was I an 'X Factor' winner that got dropped by Syco - and when that happens, you're never heard of again - but everyone thought I was a clown.

People don't understand that if I would have stayed in Tampa, I might have disappeared and people would have forgotten about me. That may be good in some ways, but not in others.

I've been dropped out of many movies at the last minute so that hurts because you feel sheer helplessness because you know how good you could've been in that role.

After acting in a critically acclaimed film like 'Kaaka Muttai,' I didn't get any offers for more than a year.

The Roses should have made it as the biggest band since The Beatles, but we didn't.

Poverty took me from being the girl who was always the lead in the school play, to a woman who can't open her own front door.

It's been sickening how much money I've passed up.

I blew a chance at a million dollars.

There is so much that happens in the entertainment life, especially when you've been working from such a young age such as myself.