Dominic Cooper Quotes

We always enter competitions to win but things don't always happen the way we want.

You get so close, a lot of close calls, and then it just doesn't happen. That's just the way the industry is. It's very difficult.

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

I trained myself to not get my hopes up, because there were so many times in the room where you'd be like, 'This feels amazing, this is a hit!' And it never saw the light of day.

The worst part about not playing is when you think that you are ready to do it. You try to get more minutes, taking the chances, but you end up in a situation where things have not gone well for you for weeks - or for years. That is like swimming wet clothes.

It was hard every time I found out that I was not in the starting XI.

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

I love my job and I know I am very lucky but still, if you audition and you don't get it, it still affects you.

You never get every job you want.

What hurts most is whenever I am leading, and then I lose the match, it is disappointing, and there are so many such matches.

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's so disappointing to put in your best, hard work and then find the film flopping at the box office for no fault of yours.

It's always disappointing to lose a final.

Sometimes hard work doesn't pay off.

There's a lot of disappointment when you lose a playoff game.

No matter how well or how bad you play, when you have a chance of winning and you come up a little bit too short, it obviously hits you a little bit. It stinks.

I would say that 98 percent of the time you are not going to get the role you are going after. I think that can be very discouraging.

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

I had the qualifications, but I was not chosen.

If you don't score, and you have chances, you are disappointed.

The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.

It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.

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

I had been on several shows that were meant to be the big ones, that would go on forever, and they didn't.