James Roday Quotes

Life sometimes doesn't work out exactly as we plan or hope for.

I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always work out.

Every time I try to plan something or assume that something's going to happen, it never works out like that.

Nothing in life is ever as simple as we imagine.

It's always discouraging when you don't have things go your way. They are frustrated just like the rest of us.

Life doesn't always give us what we are expecting.

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

I like the accidental nature of being in the real world.

I did this one movie with a great director named Wayne Kramer. It was 'Crossing Over,' and Harrison Ford, Ashley Judd and Ray Liotta were in it. I was one of the leads, and I thought this was it. It got shelved for two years, and then it was in theaters maybe a week. After that, I adopted a philosophy of, 'Hope for the best, expect the worst.'

Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

I always try to plan things out, but they never work out the way I expect.

When you plan something, it never works.

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.

I resented that my career wasn't going the way that it was supposed to. And I was angry that I wasn't getting the parts that I wanted.

Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.

The 2001 tour to Australia would have been a great highlight in my career if the Lions had won the series. That might sound strange because it was a great tour in many ways, but, for me, the more time goes by, the less of a career highlight it becomes, and just more of a frustration.

Anyway, it fell through because they ran out of money. That was when I learned not to waste your time getting your hopes up or to believe something until it actually happens. We broke up for various reasons, but it was a good band. Jim and Don produced some magical music.

There are always things you wish you could've done better, and there are always things that you wish would've turned out a different way in terms of storyline, which you're not in charge of.

With all the awards I've won, you'd think that I'd at least be able to make a living. It's a really terrible situation.

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.

Going back to coach in Green Bay was the biggest mistake I ever made in my life. I was approached by the organization, and it turned out to be an enormous mistake. I was extremely disappointed. I disappointed the Packers and their fans.

Not being able to end the last game of my college career with a win, it really hurts.

It's frustrating when you make the efforts but the conditions are not there to make a great tournament.

What hurts most is whenever I am leading, and then I lose the match, it is disappointing, and there are so many such matches.