Daniel Handler Quotes

I remember I had to play a blind person once, and I did this stupid thing with my eyes, and I knew the minute I started it I'd made a mistake.

Where I Was Wrong

I would go so far as to say that I mostly write terrible things. I mean, my first drafts are so appalling.

When you blow an audition that you have a lot of importance on, it haunts you for years.

My biggest fear is that I might end up doing a film which I might regret at a later point of time.

I've never made a perfect speech or a perfect anything. I always think after, I should have done it that way or this way.

If I miss a pass at practice, I'm ticked off.

Any time I screw up I feel bad about it.

I wrote in my first book that I was broken, and now it just makes me mad every time. This is why writing words in books is so precarious. This is why Jesus only wrote in the sand, right? I just - I hate that I wrote that.

You know me; I make some comments that aren't really good.

I look back at the first Groves fight, and it was all so bad, so wrong. Everyone was telling me it was going to be easy, the bookies, everyone. Like an unprofessional fool, like an idiot, I listened to them. I didn't give myself the best possible chance.

I cut my hair. I did that. That wasn't a good decision.

The remake of 'Gulaabi Aankhein' went into a bad spin and I'll only hold myself responsible for it. I shouldn't have done it.

Today I got so annoyed with myself that I lost my patience and walked away from a game that, with hindsight, I should have continued [on quitting a game early on against Hendry]

The pictures of me on the Internet were silly, inappropriate shots. I appreciate all the support of my fans, and hope they understand that along the way I am going to make mistakes and I am not perfect. I never intended for any of this to happen, and I am truly sorry if I have disappointed anyone. Most of all, I have let myself down. I will learn from my mistakes and trust my support team.

Well, we have brought certain things upon ourselves. I've certainly brought things upon us with my mouth.

I’m such an idiot - the thing was I was in there because this homeless guy was hungry. I went past and thought ‘I’m going to go in and get him some wedges.’ I was actually doing a good deed. It’s so me to end up the other way around where I’ve done damage.

I'm thinking that I shouldn't have filed my nails last night.

If we make mistakes in our first compositions and do not know them, we may not amend them.

Appius Livius Ocella made mistakes in his whole long existence. Perhaps changing Eric was his finest hour. He created the perfect vampire. Eric's only flaw is you.

I know I've done good work. I've been very serious about my writing, and I've done the best that I could. But I don't feel that I've done more than I should have. In fact, I've done less than I should have.

My friends tell me that I am an intruder, that I don't really write when I attempt poetry. But those of my friends who write in prose say that I'm no writer when I attempt prose. So really I don't know what to do, I'm in a quandary.

I should have written more. I should have written more during the period when I just liked so much doing the political work in the streets.

Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, "Oh, for God's sake, shut up."

Only the mistakes were mine.