Kunal Khemu Quotes

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

Life doesn't always end up with a bow wrapped around it.

You're constantly getting rejected in acting. You get rejected more than you get hired!

What's my greatest fear? I don't know; I have lots of fears. Regret, I don't want to have any regrets; that makes me scared.

When I was in my twenties, I was a self-conscious, out-of-work actress. Then I decided to be a writer and got hired on an NBC show that got canceled after one year. I was heavily discouraged by someone I worked for who told me I wasn't good.

That's the dating world. You just keep losing. Everyone does.

I worked out of Hollywood for 10 years and I had my heart broken half a dozen times, so I know all the things that can go wrong.

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.

I have an enormous sense of having failed in life.

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

I've had a long line of failed television programs, pilots that were never picked up, series that didn't go very long. I've learned that there's really nothing you can do. If it's not in my control, I try not to worry about it.

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.

Sometimes I feel like a has-been who never was.

It's not a field, I think, for people who need to have success every day: if you can't live with a nightly sort of disaster, you should get out. I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that the ghosts you chase you never catch.

Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure.

Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.

If my British film career was a girl, then I'd been hanging around outside her apartment a little bit too long.

I've had it where things didn't go well for me with movies or something that got canceled.

I didn't expect any success at all. I was rejected by every publisher in the world and every agent in town.

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

I've succeeded at everything except my life.

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

It's no accident that I'm not married and don't have kids yet. Because, despite what I've achieved in my career, I'm always wondering when somebody's gonna tap me on the shoulder and say, 'OK, the gig is up.'

As I'm always fond of telling hosts at the Oscars who are doing it for their first time, for everybody who wins, there are four people who don't. As the evening wears on, the room fills up with losers, and then they are bitter.

My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner.