Fernando Torres Quotes

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.

You try to be the best you can and sometimes it ain't damn good enough.

I haven't got enough fingers to count the number of clubs who rejected me.

I'd been trying to do this since I was 15, sending out the demo tapes and doing all the things that everyone told me that I should be doing. But no deal - like, never.

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

When you don't make the plays that you know you're capable of making, it's frustrating.

There is a sense of frustration because we are losing games that we know we are capable of winning.

Most of my conscious efforts have ended in embarrassing failure.

Nothing more aggravates ill success than the near approach of good.

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

I made two movies very young, and then I had trouble getting a movie made, and so - which was both, I think, a plus and a minus. It was a minus because it made me unhappy.

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

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.

After hundreds of auditions and nothing, you're sitting home and wondering, 'What am I doing?'

I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap.

From the time I was 16 to really up until turning 21, the roles were really, really few and far between. I had people say that I just wasn't a good singer. They didn't know what to do with me; I would never fit in any markets. I almost quit acting altogether.

I fought for years and spent a fortune fighting and never got anywhere.

My first ten years in Hollywood were really tough. I'd be coaching friends who came to me for acting advice, and then they'd make it before I did. I'd still be helping them while they were on movie sets and I had four lines on a TV show.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

Losing is not fun. It's terrible to lose. But in order to have fun winning, you have to go thouigh some pain of losing.

I knew guys way more talented than me who fell through the cracks.

I was in the wilderness of Hollywood for almost ten years. I was off the studio lists. I wasn't getting the roles offered to actors that hadn't done a third of the roles I had done or had the popularity I had.

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