Wyatt Cenac Quotes

There never were any roles for my kind of acting. That's the story of my life.

I'm so lucky in my life, but I'm so unlucky in my abilities. I love art so much, but I'm unable to produce it. I can't even draw a dog that doesn't look like a horse.

Why do I put myself in a position to be cast aside or not considered as I would like to? Because I am a creative mind, because I still aspire to be one.

Here was a man with loads of talent, loads of ability, lots of love to give; but that had been stifled and aborted. I became very fond of that character.

I'm not married and I don't think that's going to work out for me. I'm not even bitter, I'm just exhausted.

My hunger and desperation, being an actor, an out of work actor - my memory of that is as fresh as an open wound.

Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

I do feel a bit dejected about my film career. I am sad that it didn't take off as expected. I didn't get my due as an actor. I have an attractive personality and good looks. But I don't know what went wrong? You need to stop thinking about such things and move on.

I am not a calm, happy person. I am complicated.

Stuck as Adam Cartwright, I was only able to use about one-tenth of my ability.

You always have the nightmare of, you know, working with the guy that you've just admired forever, and then he's just totally disengaged and awful to be around.

After high school, I worked as a messenger boy at a local bank. I was miserable. I felt like Robin Hood chained in the Sheriff of Nottingham's dungeon. As a would-be writer, I thought it was a catastrophe. As a bank employee, I could barely add or subtract and had to count on my fingers.

I wanted so badly to be in a famous band, and it was not happening. I played drums with different bands and with the Blue Man Group in Chicago, but I definitely felt like, 'Wow, I did not picture my life being like this.'

You want to be the best, and you hear a lot of good things about yourself, and then you find out that you're going to debut as a caddy - it's a little gut-wrenching, and it hurt.

I assumed no one would ever listen to my music, and for quite a lot of years, I was right.

I often feel like a character actress trapped inside the mean, aging Barbie's body.

Everyone has days where they don't get their way, where you have to go to bed early or you have too much homework to do or you can't eat the candy that you want or you miss your favorite TV show and, in those moments, you just want to tear the whole world down.

I think I'm pretty misunderstoood.

I didn't enjoy growing up. I was lonely. That's probably my base level to feel like that.

Every player has a chip on their shoulder about something.

I don't want to be the Grinch.

Despite the apparent trappings of modest success in television and so on, I have always been an uneasy person. I can't change that. I can't change that part of my psychological makeup.

It used to frustrate me when I'd get celebrities on my shows and I had to meet them as this ludicrous magician character rather than as myself.