Robert Lepage Quotes

Life sometimes doesn't work out exactly as we plan or hope for.

If you're alive for more than five minutes, you're going to be disappointed.

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 there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they are both pumping gas now.

I did this one movie with a great director named Wayne Kramer. It was 'Crossing Over,' and Harrison Ford, Ashley Judd and Ray Liotta were in it. I was one of the leads, and I thought this was it. It got shelved for two years, and then it was in theaters maybe a week. After that, I adopted a philosophy of, 'Hope for the best, expect the worst.'

My life has been nothing but a failure.

My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it cost her dearly. Late in her life, she was furious that she had not followed her own heart; she thought that it had ruined her life, and I think she was right.

It's something you hope doesn't happen. When you sign on to do a job, you hope you'll be able to get it done. But that's not always in your control.

Sometimes your dreams come true, and it's a real drag.

You know, nothing is ever happily-ever-after. Ever.

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.

There are always things you wish you could've done better, and there are always things that you wish would've turned out a different way in terms of storyline, which you're not in charge of.

I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth - that I hadn't set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if 'The Big Trail' had been a success and launched me as a star.

'Gimme a Break' ran for six years and gave me the kind of money and freedom that I'd dreamed would make me happy. It didn't.

Not many people get that 'happily ever after' they want in life. There are disappointments every step of the way, no matter how hard one strives for the best.

I feel like winning the title was a curse. It was something that I always wanted to achieve. I got it, but it didn't turn out the way I thought. The business side of it has not been very good.

Manchester United was a sad experience. Things didn't go as I had hoped. I was disappointed, and it didn't help me to rise to the surface.

I wanted to be a dramatic actress. Life doesn't go the way you think it's going to go.

Not being able to end the last game of my college career with a win, it really hurts.

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

People's lives often don't turn out as they expect.

I think the Knight boys have a long history of disappointing their fathers.

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

When the only thing you look forward to in life is lunch, you know you have had your just desserts, and it is time to call it a day.

There is so much heartbreak and letdown in this industry. You get your heart set on something, and then you're sitting by the phone for three weeks and it never rings.