Irvine Welsh Quotes

My sister wanted to be an actress, but she never made it. She does live in a trailer. She got halfway. She's an actress, she just never gets called to the set.

The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.

Why do I put myself in a position to be cast aside or not considered as I would like to? Because I am a creative mind, because I still aspire to be one.

Who could be more desperate than filmmakers?

If I were happy, married with six children, I wouldn't be writing. And I doubt if I should want to.

Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one.

Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?

There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.

I've succeeded at everything except my life.

I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then.

It's no accident that I'm not married and don't have kids yet. Because, despite what I've achieved in my career, I'm always wondering when somebody's gonna tap me on the shoulder and say, 'OK, the gig is up.'

I wanted to be a huge star and I have failed.

I still haven't made a film that defines who I am.

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

It's obviously disappointing and surreal when you see someone else win the Stanley Cup.

Many feel discouraged because they have not measured up to their potential.

I wanted to be a dramatic actress. Life doesn't go the way you think it's going to go.

I wanted so badly to be in a famous band, and it was not happening. I played drums with different bands and with the Blue Man Group in Chicago, but I definitely felt like, 'Wow, I did not picture my life being like this.'

Things don't always happen the way one wishes they would.

Sometimes, people don't make the kind of films you want to do.

We ceased to be a band the moment we made it. It left us with nothing. We felt like a failure although we had commercial success.

There never were any roles for my kind of acting. That's the story of my life.

I worked very hard to be a diva. But it never worked.

I just didn't want a musical side of me being prosperous but I'm dying on the inside.

I dreamed of turning pro as an Olympic medallist but I ended up turning pro as the kid who failed to make the Olympics.