Gracie Gold Quotes

There's a lot of pain in my heart because what I accomplished was second to none. I'm not losing any sleep, but I do pay attention every year at this time.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

You never forget the feeling of not getting to the World Series. Yes, it sticks with you.

I don't like to think of anyone waking up every morning amazed that things haven't gone their way in life.

I've got a lot of silvers. Second seems to be something I end up being. I don't want to be the bridesmaid forever.

You get so close, a lot of close calls, and then it just doesn't happen. That's just the way the industry is. It's very difficult.

My sister wanted to be an actress, but she never made it. She does live in a trailer. She got halfway. She's an actress, she just never gets called to the set.

I'm disappointed that success hasn't been a Himalayan feeling.

So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.

I wish you well and I hope it will be a huge hit, because that would be very good for me. And if, God forbid, it's a terrible flop, well that would be very good for me.

We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.

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

I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

I've succeeded at everything except my life.

I don't think any of us grew up into the world we were hoping for or expecting.

I could be winning the decathlon in high school, which I've won twice, yet, if my dad is in the audience, 'Oh look! It's Anthony Quinn.' And I'm like, 'Hello? Kid just got a gold medal. Hello? I'm over here.'

My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.

I don't feel like what I've done are 'accomplishments.'

I'm actually not a particularly negative person, but I feel like most things are better when they're not actualized. The motivation that comes from wanting something is so much more driving of people than actually getting it.

I always had a trunk full of good reviews. I'd get magnificent reviews, and I'd be standing out on the unemployment line!

To anyone who has started out on a long campaign believing that the gold medal was destined for him, the feeling when, all of a sudden, the medal has gone somewhere else is quite indescribable.

Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.

The memories for the missed opportunities are stronger than for the ones I managed to get over the line in.