Tyler Labine Quotes

A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.

I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.

Most of the stuff I've written has never even gotten made. It's par for the course. It's a great living, but it also gets very frustrating.

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

From the time I was 16 to really up until turning 21, the roles were really, really few and far between. I had people say that I just wasn't a good singer. They didn't know what to do with me; I would never fit in any markets. I almost quit acting altogether.

It's so disappointing to put in your best, hard work and then find the film flopping at the box office for no fault of yours.

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

Losing feels worse than winning feels good.

I was very disappointed that so much of the work I did on The Haunted Mansion didn't arrive in the final cut.

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

I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.

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

No, and in fact I get a bit frustrated, because I'm actually quite good at one-liners, and I've had hundreds of them over the years, and they sink without trace, and I get very frustrated. Every party conference I really work on the speeches, and I always have two or three things I'm quite proud of, and no one ever remembers them.

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

The hardest thing as an actor is that you work really hard constantly for these roles, and you invest so much in it. And when they don't come to fruition and nobody sees them, there's a part of you that dies a little bit. It's like, 'Ah! But I worked so hard!' But that's the business.

I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day.

The most frustrating thing to me is when I tell people I work on 'Friday Night Lights,' they'll say, 'Oh, I hear that's a really good show.' They never watched it.

I wanted the influence. In the end I wasn't very good at being a president. I looked out of the window and thought that the man cutting the lawn actually seemed to have more control over what he was doing.

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.

You never get every job you want.

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

We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting.

Having a show get canceled is like, 'Oh, you have caviar between your teeth,' you know what I mean? Because you had a show in the first place.

You get so tired of having your work die. I just wanted to make something that people would actually use.

They decided that unpaid leave could only be granted through the decision of a council that consisted almost entirely of scientists who couldn't understand my reasons for wanting to go so. They said no, no unpaid. So I immediately resigned.