Adrianne Palicki Quotes

Daawat-E-Ishq' did not do as well as we expected, so yes, when a film doesn't do as well as you wanted it to, it hurts, especially after you have put your sweat and blood on it.

Regrets are something you can't really have as an actor, because ultimately you'll end up destroying yourself... there's a lot of disappointment in this business.

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.

My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery.

Before 'Whiplash,' I'd had a string of failed scripts. I'd pour my blood, sweat and tears into them, and no one would like them.

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 so disappointing to put in your best, hard work and then find the film flopping at the box office for no fault of yours.

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

I had given up on acting because I would go for auditions every day, but nothing would happen.

Sometimes hard work doesn't pay off.

Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the bulk of our Herculean efforts are keel-hauled before our very eyes.

For the longest time, I was auditioning, getting called back, and I had a long string of things not going my way. I thought, 'Maybe this is never going happen. Maybe I'll never book a commercial.'

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.

Maybe that's my lot in life as an actor, to be the guy who gets crapped on everywhere he goes. Oh God.

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

You play a couple of shows, and these label guys come - and they leave halfway through a show. Then the phone calls just stop. And your heart is broken.

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

In L.A., you constantly go on auditions, and you're usually not what they're looking for - you get used to going back and back to the same show, and nothing happens.

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?

I have had so many bad auditions.

I tried out for my basketball team every year and I never made it. You had to buy the shoes before you knew if you were on the team because it took a few weeks for them to ship. I bought the shoes every year, never once made the team, had a ton of high school basketball shoes.

I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

When you go out on auditions for big movies, and you're not a big star, you get used to getting close but not getting the part.