Rod Steiger Quotes

A lot of movies come out and you think, 'Couldn't you have just tried a little harder?'

I've never had a movie that got great reviews. I've had movies that got different levels of good and bad reviews, but you can more or less count on plenty of bad reviews.

In the real world, it doesn't always go your way like it can on a television show.

With all the awards I've won, you'd think that I'd at least be able to make a living. It's a really terrible situation.

I thought that was actually kind of boring, that search for perfection.

They set a low bar for Donald Trump, and he banged his head on it.

I vote in the Academy, so I get all the screeners. I'm so often disappointed by all the material and especially by what wins. I find myself never voting for the winner.

The indie movie world is like a bad Tinder date, and there are always strings attached.

When I was in L.A., the structure wasn't up to par as I wanted it to be.

It has happened many a times where I have taken a project and wasn't happy about it.

It must be horrible to do things that you don't like hoping to please other people, and they don't like it either, and you've got to eat it.

There's nothing worse than getting third.

'One Part Lullaby.' It was our big major-label record. People reference it quite a bit, but it did absolutely nothing. It's like the 'Kids' soundtrack. It did nothing. It didn't start anything for me.

I find it incredibly annoying going to every race to finish seventh, or even fifth.

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

'That's Not The Way It's Supposed To Be' was a good video, but it didn't do anything.

Always, I seemed to just miss out. Why, I wasn't even the most valuable senior athlete in my high school in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.

Most movies were always terrible.

I do what work I get. I'm disappointed half the time.

I hate losing more than I love winning.

When I look at my films, all I see is everything that went wrong.

I absolutely feel that Rage failed.

I've learnt that being second is worthless.

After 'Taramani,' life has changed - in a sense, as we grow, we evolve. My regret was post its release. After giving so much of my effort, blood, sweat, tears and time for a movie... I still didn't get any big offers. That really hurt.

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