Beth Hart Quotes

I tried out for my basketball team every year and I never made it. You had to buy the shoes before you knew if you were on the team because it took a few weeks for them to ship. I bought the shoes every year, never once made the team, had a ton of high school basketball shoes.

I haven't got enough fingers to count the number of clubs who rejected me.

I assumed no one would ever listen to my music, and for quite a lot of years, I was right.

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

You get so close, a lot of close calls, and then it just doesn't happen. That's just the way the industry is. It's very difficult.

There are so many people who try so hard and have such big dreams, and it doesn't happen for them.

So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.

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

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

My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery.

I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap.

I wanted to be a serious actress, but of course that didn't really happen.

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.

The worst part about not playing is when you think that you are ready to do it. You try to get more minutes, taking the chances, but you end up in a situation where things have not gone well for you for weeks - or for years. That is like swimming wet clothes.

We all get our dreams stamped on from time to time, right? And if it didn’t hurt, what kind of second-rate dreams would they be?

For the longest time, I was auditioning, getting called back, and I had a long string of things not going my way. I thought, 'Maybe this is never going happen. Maybe I'll never book a commercial.'

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.

I did everything I could to establish myself, but it just didn't work that way. I'm not angry about that.

Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

I've had a long line of failed television programs, pilots that were never picked up, series that didn't go very long. I've learned that there's really nothing you can do. If it's not in my control, I try not to worry about it.

Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

I didn't expect any success at all. I was rejected by every publisher in the world and every agent in town.

I had left the music industry at the end of 2001, after 10 years, and had spent three years writing every single day - producing two unpublished novels, one abandoned novel, and three unproduced screenplays. The word 'no' and I were on more than nodding terms. The word 'no' and I were talking about going on holiday together.