Vonda Shepard Quotes

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.

I had given up on acting because I would go for auditions every day, but nothing would happen.

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

Everything I've done in my career has been for nothing.

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?

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

I wish I was a great writer or a great journalist or a great scientist or a great artist; I'm not.

I thought 'The Well' was going to launch my career, but nothing happened.

What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.

I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always work out.

Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual

High expectations produce high frustrations.

My parents were ambitious people, my father especially, whose entire life was devoted to rising above, but his ambitions were defeated long before death finished them off, and so when he died, he came back to where he started, but he didn't come back home, because there was no home to come back to.

I'd been trying to do this since I was 15, sending out the demo tapes and doing all the things that everyone told me that I should be doing. But no deal - like, never.

Young people who have no future will easily give up their future, which they can't see on the horizon.

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

I think I laid it all out there for 19 years, and you don't always achieve all the goals that you shoot for.

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

There was a time in my life when I used to plan elaborately; not anymore. I gave up when I realised nothing was going my way.

I go to Milwaukee, I get cut, that really put a funk in me. I'm like, 'Man, it's over for me. I can't even make it in training camp now?'

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

My life's dream has been a perpetual nightmare.

Some people never have anything except ideals.

I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn't going to be able to walk soon, you know? I wanted to be a pro skateboarder, but it was too hard. I was trying, but it wasn't going to happen.