Maidie Norman Quotes

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

I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth - that I hadn't set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if 'The Big Trail' had been a success and launched me as a star.

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 been on several shows that were meant to be the big ones, that would go on forever, and they didn't.

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

I thought nothing would ever happen for me. My whole life had been geared toward being a singer, and it wasn't clicking.

You were always told that if you worked hard, you would get somewhere. But so many people feel they have worked hard and they have nothing to show for it.

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.

Not many people get that 'happily ever after' they want in life. There are disappointments every step of the way, no matter how hard one strives for the best.

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

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?

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

Well, I don't ever get excited. I haven't been excited since I got a Chopper bicycle when I was about 12. Once you get older you realise there's always a catch to everything. So when I get, say, a commission to make a TV show, the catch is that you have to deliver something and then the sense of responsibility overwhelms the joy of the occasion.

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

My biggest loss was the Olympics. I just can't forget losing. I never will.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.

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

It took years, honestly, to deal with the disappointment of Beijing.

And I didn't, that's why my career was very short lived.

I mean it shouldn't hang you up emotionally if your record fails.

Nothing keeps its promise.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

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

No failure in America, whether of love or money, is ever simple; it is always a kind of betrayal, of a mass of shadowy, shared hopes.