Sandra Dee Quotes

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.

The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.

Having been built in the fashion I was as a child - created and then deflated - has left me with a distinct feeling of failure. Because I did not live up to my precocity, I experience it to be like a cross between a has-been and a never-was.

For a lot of different reasons I didn't fulfil my potential.

Film critics said I gave a voice to the fear we all have: that we'll reach a certain point in our lives, look around and realize that all the things we said we'd do and become will never come to be - and that we're ordinary.

I don't feel secure at all. I don't know what actor would feel they've made it. I feel like I'm just starting.

It's no accident that I'm not married and don't have kids yet. Because, despite what I've achieved in my career, I'm always wondering when somebody's gonna tap me on the shoulder and say, 'OK, the gig is up.'

Many feel discouraged because they have not measured up to their potential.

Sometimes I get so depressed 'Bout what I haven't done. -NEVER

I think I'm what they call a never-was.

I always feel as if I'm a disappointment: that people want a grand dame in furs like Barbara Taylor Bradford.

I have not been a success, and probably never will be.

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

I have an enormous sense of having failed in life.

When people get disillusioned and get insecure and content about the future, they tend to brood about what might have been.

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 feel very bad about getting things wrong.

I'm usually convinced that what I'm working on is a total disaster.

In my first few years as an actor, I took one terrible TV job after another. But even as I laughed off my awful roles and made fun of myself to friends, my work made me cringe - I dreaded anyone's seeing it. I was crushed that I wasn't doing anything I was proud of.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

I wanted to be a huge star and I have failed.

I wanted to be a serious actress, but of course that didn't really happen.

I think many experiences are bound to be failures, and sometimes I regret them before they even happen.

What's my greatest fear? I don't know; I have lots of fears. Regret, I don't want to have any regrets; that makes me scared.