Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes

Being bad at stuff is hard, and we all deal with it every day because we're all bad at stuff.

Mistakes, mistakes, it's all I seem capable of at times.

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

You try to be the best you can and sometimes it ain't damn good enough.

It makes you not believe in anything, when you do every single thing you can do right, and then there's still some way to mess it up.

Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure.

All other areas of my life, I'm hopeless. I can't even be certain how to boil an egg.

I have an enormous sense of having failed in life.

Losing is tough.

The episodes all blend together for me, so I don't remember. I can't even remember what I had for breakfast this morning. I always feel I must be such a disappointment to them.

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

I guess I just wasn't meant to dance.

I thought I was going to be a bum the rest of my life.

All have disappointments, all have times when it isn't worthwhile.

After hundreds of auditions and nothing, you're sitting home and wondering, 'What am I doing?'

Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

Well, its very exasperating when you can't get it right.

Oh, I wish I could tell you I was a Mr. Fix-It, but I am not that kind of guy. I get frustrated so easily.

30 years and 55 pictures - not more than five that were any good, or any good for me.

When I finished the juniors I felt, perhaps for about a year and a half, that everything was going to be the same and that I would be able to go out there and win any match. But it wasn't the case. I struggled.

I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.

I don't have a single complete show or movie or anything else that I could look at and say, 'Nailed that one.' But endless dissatisfaction is, I suppose, what gets us out of bed in the morning.

I remember when I was on 'Saturday Night Live' my first year, and I wasn't getting much. I was down; I was ready to quit.

I feel I let my team down today. My heart is bleeding for everybody else. I felt like I should have gotten it done today. That's how it is. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't.

I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.