Robert A. Cook Quotes

There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.

It was total naivety that got me to Hollywood. I thought it was going to happen straight away. I told myself 'give it 5 years, there's no way I'll be here after that if it doesn't happen'. Cut to ten years later!

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.

I knew I wanted to play 'Dr Cox' really bad, which is always a huge mistake because as soon as you want something really bad, maybe you rip up a little bit.

After hundreds of auditions and nothing, you're sitting home and wondering, 'What am I doing?'

Every day I realized I would not be a star.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

I curse myself if I get out without making a 100 after crossing 40.

My parents were ambitious people, my father especially, whose entire life was devoted to rising above, but his ambitions were defeated long before death finished them off, and so when he died, he came back to where he started, but he didn't come back home, because there was no home to come back to.

I'd been trying to do this since I was 15, sending out the demo tapes and doing all the things that everyone told me that I should be doing. But no deal - like, never.

Not many people get that 'happily ever after' they want in life. There are disappointments every step of the way, no matter how hard one strives for the best.

When you've been living in hope for a long time as I have, suddenly you realize that certainty is far more desirable than hope.

There are so many people who try so hard and have such big dreams, and it doesn't happen for them.

Dreams that are planned are called frustration.

Things don't always work out as you want them to.

I know I may never emerge as a leading man.

Life is like a game, Charlie Brown... Sometimes you win... Sometimes you lose." "I'll be happy if I just make the playoffs.

The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

If you work so hard to reach your goal but you lose your pole in the very last run, that's hard to take.