Tom King Quotes

You can work for 10 years without making it... we aren't actually all living in mansions.

I had given up on acting because I would go for auditions every day, but nothing would happen.

There is a sense of shame that comes with unemployment. I didn't become a movie star, and I was a size 14.

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

Obama won the presidency on the strength of his message and the skills of the messenger. Now the talk of hope and change feels out of tune when so many Americans are out of work, over-mortgaged, and worried that life will be even tougher for their children.

To be famous and broke is hard.

I got rejected from journalism school!

I had written children's books for 14 years before I published 'Wicked.' And none of them were poorly reviewed, and none of them sold enough for me to be able to buy a bed.

I tried out for my basketball team every year and I never made it. You had to buy the shoes before you knew if you were on the team because it took a few weeks for them to ship. I bought the shoes every year, never once made the team, had a ton of high school basketball shoes.

I don't think music is my job - I don't think about it that way, because I don't really get paid. There's no paycheck at the end; it's more of a 'whatever is left over' kind of situation.

Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.

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

I feel like everything will be a letdown after 'You're The Worst.' It was such a great experience.

I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.

I was writing full time after quitting a job as a high school English teacher, and I hadn't been able to sell anything, and my bank account was down to zero, and all of my friends were like 'What are you doing in the basement, when are you going to get a real job?', and my parents thought I'd completely lost it.

Life doesn't always end up with a bow wrapped around it.

It is indeed difficult to make a living as a writer, and my advice to anyone contemplating a literary career is to have some other trade.

I was not a successful TV comedy writer.

I'm disappointed about how my career ended.

A lot of times, you just don't get the jobs you want to get.

As I'm always fond of telling hosts at the Oscars who are doing it for their first time, for everybody who wins, there are four people who don't. As the evening wears on, the room fills up with losers, and then they are bitter.

I got canceled in the middle of making the pilot.

When I was a child, there was very little money, so I've always been concerned for my financial security, which has meant that finding myself as a writer was a bad move. The practical difference the money has made is that I can support myself by fiction. That is what I have been trying to do throughout my life.

Fame was not at all what it was cracked up to be, as far as I was concerned.

My son tried to work in films and he ultimately gave it up, he finally couldn't make a living, he couldn't support himself. He worked all the time and he didn't make enough money to have a house, have an apartment.