Elvis Mitchell Quotes

Every role that you don't get burns you for a while.

Some disappointment is always the price of brave dreaming.

It takes faith and the courage to risk failure in order to realize one's destiny. Having had my share of failures throughout my career I know that it is well worth the risk.

You aim for the palace and get drowned in the sewer.

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

I don't like to be second in anything. I was trying, I just wasn't going anywhere.

She chased after her dream with much desire, but when she got to close to her expectations, well the dream burned up like paper in fire.

My biggest fear is overreaching. I have been in situations where I felt swamped, and it's turned out really well; and I've had other situations where I've had to walk off the film after five minutes because I realized I was in way over my head.

Like one who draws the model of a house beyond his power to build it who, half through, gives o'er, and leaves his part-created cost a naked subject to the weeping clouds.

More dreams are destroyed in bed than are ever found there.

Discipline is the bridge between thought and accomplishment. Discipline comes to those with the awareness that for a kite to fly it must rise against the wind; that all good things are achieved by those who are willing to swim upstream; that drifting aimlessly through life only leads to bitterness and disappointment." And then he added: "Discipline is the foundation on which all success is built. Lack of discipline inevitably leads to failure.

What man would dare believe that all he planned might come to pass?

There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.

All I wanted to do was be a hero... But do I ever get to be a hero? All I ever get to be is the stupid goat!" "Don't be discouraged, Charlie Brown... In this life we live, there are always some bitter pills to be swallowed..." "If it's all the same with you, I'd rather not renew my perscription!

When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.

Dreams without goals, are just dreams and they ultimately fuel disappointment.

In my terms, I settled for the realities of life, and submitted to its necessities: if this, then that, and so the years passed. In Adrian's terms, I gave up on life, gave up on examining it, took it as it came. And so, for the first time, I began to feel a more general remorse - a feeling somewhere between self-pity and self-hatred - about my whole life. All of it. I had lost the friends of my youth. I had lost the love of my wife. I had abandoned the ambitions I had entertained. I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was.

Throughout my lifetime I've left pieces of my heart here and there. And now, there's almost barely enough to stay alive. But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent.

Love never comes without wounds; faith never comes without failure.

The coach has turned into a pumpkin and the mice have all run away.

I bought my kid an educational toy to help him make it through life. No matter how you put it together, it's wrong.

Film industry is a pretty brutal business. If you fall too far behind, all of the perfectionism in the world won't save you.

I would be glad to worship success if I could find her.

I am the worst judge of how a movie is going to do. I always have great and ambitious hopes, but none of them see the light of day.