Joey Lauren Adams Quotes

I was an only child of a father who loved me deeply, but we didn't play catch, even though I was an athlete. We didn't go fishing or hunting or any of the things I wanted to do. Why not? He just didn't do that.

I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in the old days, and I've seen my own face contorted with sadness and rage in the mirror.

Boys frustrate me. I hate all their indirect messages, I hate game playing. Do you like me or don't you? Just tell me so I can get over you.

I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.

I was racing through life, utterly confused and angry. I don't know if I was out of control; it was more like I felt frustrated with myself and everything I saw happening around me.

What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.

I'm very opinionated, and when you're put in a position where you're getting the storylines that are not necessarily what's cranking at the back of your mind, or digging at the potential of your character and you have to sit on your hands, that's frustrating.

When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, Wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near.

Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.

It's sad when you can't make everyone happy, though. It's impossible but, at the same time, you still hope. You think, 'Maybe I can do it,' but you know you can't. But gosh, if I had to rely on giving people what they wanted, I would have had to write 40 billion different books and even then, I wouldn't get it right.

When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.

It was not easy to get all my questions answered, frankly.

Few things can make us feel crazier than expecting something from someone who has nothing to give.

The filmmakers who I'm pining to work for aren't ringing my phone off the hook.

You do not send me to Brooklyn to get a cheesecake and then I come back and you're gone.

So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years.

The blind date that has stood you up: your life.

The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.

I remember one day sitting at the pool and suddenly the tears were streaming down my cheeks. Why was I so unhappy? I had success. I had security. But it wasn't enough. I was exploding inside.

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

I'm becoming a frustrated director, I think, in an actor's body.

Sometimes I don't understand why I'm sitting here.

A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing.

The most disappointing thing to me after 'Tusk' was the politics in the band. They said, 'We're not going to do that again.' I felt dead in the water from that. On 'Mirage,' I was treading water, saying, 'Okay, whatever,' and taking a passive role.

The indie movie world is like a bad Tinder date, and there are always strings attached.