Jessica St. Clair Quotes

You play a couple of shows, and these label guys come - and they leave halfway through a show. Then the phone calls just stop. And your heart is broken.

Things don't always work out as you want them to.

I worked out of Hollywood for 10 years and I had my heart broken half a dozen times, so I know all the things that can go wrong.

The idea that you have a vision of what you're supposed to be, or going to be, or where your kids are going to be - and that that doesn't work out - is always going to be something that's going to affect people and move people.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

I intended to be famous by the time I was 16 and rich by the time I was 20. Curiously, it didn't pan out!

To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.'

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

Marriage is the death of hope.

It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!

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.

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

I was naive. Before 'Larrikins,' I thought passion, hard work, and a skill set will mean that anything you want to do will get done. I don't think that anymore.

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

I had this total obsession that I would have my first movie at the Empire when I was 24, so it was a big disappointment that it didn't happen.

When you work on a passion project, there's always the chance that you'll get your heart broken.

I try not to want any one specific thing to happen because that's then bound to probably not happen. Particularly in Hollywood, I try not to set my hopes on anything.

If you get too big for your boots, if you've got big dreams, you're gonna get them broken or shattered.

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

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

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

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

I love seeing love. I had this one girl that I was really tryna go hard with, but it wasn't it.

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 are times when your films don't work, your phone doesn't ring and you wonder what you have done.