Tom Lehman Quotes

I remember rehearsing it, and it was the one that we were really excited about and thought would sound the best, and once it was down on tape, it was like, This doesn't actually sound that good.

I'm disappointed that I really haven't been able to race in a way that is reflective of the amount of work that I have done and how I have trained. But I don't regret giving this a go.

There are a lot of movies I'd like to throw away. That's not to say that I went in with that attitude. Any film I ever started, I went in with all the hope and best intentions in the world, but some films just don't work.

I can't say that I knocked on every door, but the few that I did didn't respond the way I wanted them to, so I think it was kind of disenchanting enough for me to go back to being subterranean.

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

Sometimes, despite your best efforts, the end result does not match the expectations. '10 Enradhukulla' is still a movie very close to my heart.

I think they've been baby bummers.

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

My England captaincy was not the England captaincy I wanted, that's what will live with me for a long time.

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

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

When you say 'failure,' that seems really dramatic, but a lot of failure is just really depressing and mundane. I remember the first time I ever played a concert in Italy. I played a venue that held 900 people, and I think five people showed up. It wasn't a big, 'John Carter of Mars' type failure. It wasn't dramatic; it was just depressing.

You finish a movie and you think, there, you've done it, really well, or best you can. But if you watch it, you see it was just bollocks.

I've several times had jobs that I thought were going to be my big break, and it didn't pan out.

We think that we have great potential but never reach it.

I don't want to be a figure of disappointment.

I know it wouldn't seem like I've had a lot of failure in my career, but there are things that I regard as failures, when I look at certain performances and go, 'That's not good enough.'

If you felt that excitement when you voted for Barack Obama, shouldn't you feel that way now that he's President Obama? You know there's something wrong with the kind of job he's done as president when the best feeling you had was the day you voted for him.

So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years.

The 2001 tour to Australia would have been a great highlight in my career if the Lions had won the series. That might sound strange because it was a great tour in many ways, but, for me, the more time goes by, the less of a career highlight it becomes, and just more of a frustration.

I'm really disappointed at every event if I don't do less than what I wanted to do.

Every now and then you dig a dry hole.

It ends up being a terrible movie if you try and please everyone.

I've drawn some things that have fallen very flat.

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