Andrea Jeremiah Quotes

Groan and forget it.

You got to take a deep breath and give up. The system is rigged against you.

After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.

Eventually you get tired of losing.

When I was 25, I believed I could change the world. At 41, I have come to the realization that I cannot change my wife, my church, or my kids, to say nothing of the world. Try as I might, I have not been able to manufacture outcomes the way I thought I could, either in my own life or other people's.

Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.

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.

It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.

I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this.

I thought nothing would ever happen for me. My whole life had been geared toward being a singer, and it wasn't clicking.

I don't have any illusions anymore. The illusion that rock 'n' roll could change anything - I don't believe that. I've changed.

I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always work out.

The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.

'I throw my hand up in the air sometimes' is when you don't get your way - when you give up, and you're handing it over.

After you do this for a while, you get used to things not working the way you want them to. There's a job you want, and you don't get it. There's a movie you'd like to get made, and it doesn't get made. You become inured to it.

When I finally got there, to where I thought was the top, I wasn't doing what I was doing in the beginning. I was not happy.

It's tough to say this, but sometimes it's better if you are losing because then you don't expect anything.

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

I just never count on anything. You can't.

Dreams that are planned are called frustration.

I don't see a utopia anywhere for me.

I don't like setting goals - I don't like to be disappointed.

I do not dwell on dreams I know how soon a dream becomes an expectation How can I have expectations? Look at me, No, Captain, Look at me, Look at me!

Life is an apprenticeship to the constant renunciations, to the steady failure of our claims, our hopes, our powers, our liberty.

I'm never going to run this again.