Libba Bray Quotes

I shouldn't have acted. I didn't exhibit any ability. I was one of the kids in the school play who was just mouthing words, and they weren't the actual words of the song. I was pretty lame!

I was a pretty terrible lawyer. A really, really terrible lawyer.

I feel the producers really exploited my lack of talent at this time. I looked like an idiot up there. I want to be good, not something that people will laugh at.

Dilettantism is the sort of thing one must avoid.

I'd be an absolutely appalling detective... Appalling.

I kind of tried my hand at sports and school, and I wasn't very apt at either one of those things.

Any plan where you lose your hat is a bad plan.

Underfunded, underwhelmed, and out of their league from the git-go, my parents took to home ownership like horse thieves to a hanging judge.

Pressure is self-doubt when you're unprepared.

I'm basically a schlub.

Sometimes when you get eager, you get sloppy. Sometimes when you get sloppy, you get knocked out.

I made mistakes in every trial.

Everybody can relate to that feeling that, 'I'm having one of those days where I'm not doing anything right.'

Don't say I was an inspirational teacher - my former pupils would laugh their heads off. I was grossly incompetent, but I hope I didn't do the children a disservice.

I was fairly rubbish as a player.

We're not very confident performers, and if we don't get a laugh we get insecure.

There have been too many turnovers on my part.

Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.

Make no mistake about it, you are dumb. You’re a group of incredibly well-educated dumb people. I was there. We all were there. You’re barely functional. There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups, but the screw-ups, they’re a-coming for ya. It’s a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.

Send not a Catt for Lard.

Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.

The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

I can't run a company... I can't even run my own life!

All other areas of my life, I'm hopeless. I can't even be certain how to boil an egg.

Those who can't do, teach!