Catherine Keener Quotes

I have made a number of movies that I have never seen. It's not a matter of ego. It's a matter of being disappointed. It's really a shame. It's just as difficult to make a movie that no one cares about as to make a hit.

Sometimes when you miss out on points, it is a pity, it is a shame, because we tried to do everything in the game.

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.

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.

We should have won this one. I think it is a lost opportunity.

I cannot help but think that great results would have been obtained had my views been thought better of; yet I am much inclined to accept the present condition as for the best.

As soon as he hit it, I thought I had it. But I lost it when it went into the lights. I did my best.

I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.

Sometimes you just give everything you have, and you do your absolute best, and it doesn't stack up.

It would have been great to have had 10 victories and been in the playoffs and have gone all the way and then said, 'Goodbye,' but it didn't work out that way.

When you make something that you're really proud of, and it doesn't do well, you can live with it. The hard part is when you make something that you have to compromise on and it doesn't do well.

I'm the classic case of a great player on a bad team, and it stinks.

There are so many people who try so hard and have such big dreams, and it doesn't happen for them.

It is hard when you think you can do better, but things just aren't working out.

Manchester United was a sad experience. Things didn't go as I had hoped. I was disappointed, and it didn't help me to rise to the surface.

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

I was very disappointed that so much of the work I did on The Haunted Mansion didn't arrive in the final cut.

I did everything I could to establish myself, but it just didn't work that way. I'm not angry about that.

My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.

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

A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

I'm disappointed that I really haven't been able to race in a way that is reflective of the amount of work that I have done and how I have trained. But I don't regret giving this a go.