Joe Leffew Quotes

Sometimes hard work doesn't pay off.

You want good ratings, you want people to like the show, you want to be appreciated for the hard work you put in. You don't always get it. Every show is not beloved.

If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.

I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they are both pumping gas now.

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.

There's only so much you can do of trying, finding yourself very close to getting a part and then not getting it.

There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.

I was born on the west side of Chicago, and there was quite a bit of poverty. My family and I didn't have exactly the best or the most optimal financial situation in my youth, but we turned out well. My mom always made sure that we got a proper education and that we dedicated ourselves to our work.

My parents were so poor when I was a kid, I never went anywhere. I take our youngsters with us because I don't know anything that teaches them so much.

My grandmother had six kids - one died as an infant - and she was dirt-poor, and all her kids got an education. And my mom grew up poor. And they both worked so hard and cultivated so much of their own happiness. I wanted to have that like an amulet. Not like armor, but like a magic feather. Like Dumbo's magic feather.

I had been on several shows that were meant to be the big ones, that would go on forever, and they didn't.

Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years.

You were always told that if you worked hard, you would get somewhere. But so many people feel they have worked hard and they have nothing to show for it.

I spent most of my 20s playing music. I was in a band, and we worked really hard and did not get very far.

It's so disappointing to put in your best, hard work and then find the film flopping at the box office for no fault of yours.

Whenever you put so much time and effort into one single game, and you go out there and lose, it sucks.

Some losses are harder to take than others. You can lose and play well. It is when you lose and don't do the things you worked on and don't do what you say you would that is difficult.

I grew up in poverty and my mother had to sacrifice a lot for us to eat and get an education - just imagine in a house where we were more than six children! But hard work and dedication is what it took for me to be here today.

I absolutely feel that Rage failed.

A lot of work is going in, and it's not paying off. And it's becoming very frustrating for me.

We always enter competitions to win but things don't always happen the way we want.

Every game that you lose it hurts, but especially when you lead 2-1, and you lose 4-2.

When I was around 25 years old, I lost everything and was a complete dirtbag.

Sometimes films don't turn out the way they were envisioned on paper. And when that happens, one must just forget the entire episode.

Mum obviously did not earn much money to feed me and my siblings. She worked hard to raise us, but there was always something missing.