Lee Ann Womack Quotes

During my freshman year of college, it became undeniably clear that I didn't want to be great again. I correlated greatness with misery.

Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.

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?

It's always disappointing when your work is not received as you hope it would be.

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

Things don't always work out as you want them to.

It's always bitterly disappointing to people to see how normally one can live.

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

Expectation is the mother of all frustration.

At 30 I thought my life was over. I thought I'd have made something of myself by then, that life would somehow have made the necessary arrangements - but actually I had nothing.

My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions.

I thought that when I won the Olympic trials I was going to be the happiest person in the whole world. And I was happy. But it wasn't like I thought it was going to be. I had already imagined it in my head so many times. It was real before it happened.

And I thought my loss my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic.

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 think that if you idealise someone for so long, they can only disappoint and I wouldn't want to be disappointed by those people.

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

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 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 like everything will be a letdown after 'You're The Worst.' It was such a great experience.

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.

My life has been nothing but a failure.

I don't think any of us grew up into the world we were hoping for or expecting.

It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

Fame was not at all what it was cracked up to be, as far as I was concerned.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.