Joseph Gordon-Levitt Quotes

I should have been deliriously happy. I had my dream come true. I'm a best-selling author. So why is everything in my life, including my writing, going bad?

My life has been nothing but a failure.

I really, really thought that it was a no-brainer in terms of being a hit. And so it does surprise that that hasn't been the manifested reception of it so far.

Sometimes your dreams come true, and it's a real drag.

Nothing is going the way it was supposed to.

I trained myself to not get my hopes up, because there were so many times in the room where you'd be like, 'This feels amazing, this is a hit!' And it never saw the light of day.

It's frustrating when you make the efforts but the conditions are not there to make a great tournament.

I feel like winning the title was a curse. It was something that I always wanted to achieve. I got it, but it didn't turn out the way I thought. The business side of it has not been very good.

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.

If you don't score, and you have chances, you are disappointed.

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

Basically, I'm a people pleaser who has a knack for disappointing.

It's a terrible thing to have to tell your fans, who have waited like Detroit's have, that their team won't win it this year. But it's better than lying to them.

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

Life sometimes doesn't work out exactly as we plan or hope for.

If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.

I hate not giving the people what they want.

You have no idea what it is like to constantly disappoint people. You see it the moment you meet them. You see in their eyes that they expected something so entirely different, and here they are meeting... you.

I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?

I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.

There's only so much you can do of trying, finding yourself very close to getting a part and then not getting it.

There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.

My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!