Scott Rudin Quotes

I have no idea! I have been writing for 35 years and from the beginning up to now the situation's almost the same. I'm kind of an ugly duckling. Always the duckling, never the swan.

Either still I find Some imperfection in the chosen theme, Or see of absolute accomplishment Much wanting, so much wanting, in myself, That I recoil and droop, and seek repose In listlessness from vain perplexity, Unprofitably travelling towards the grave.

Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life.

When I read profiles of myself, I sometimes think: 'I have spent my whole life struggling to understand my motivations and impulses, and I've never quite sorted them out.'

Do I really need to prove anything to anybody? I don't feel that I have to prove anything. The only thing that I have to prove is to myself, that I have value.

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'

I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.

Sometimes I feel 15; other times, I feel fully grown and mature and handling all my business. It can waver from day to day, hour to hour.

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

After wrestling with myself for six months, I began medical treatment. During that time I started a band with some friends of mine called Jack's Car, but that didn't last.

When I was in my 20s, I thought I knew who I was. And then as soon as I turned 30, I realized that person has bruises and bumps and dark parts. And you kind of go, well, that's it. I'd rather embrace it than force myself to change.

My failures have made me look at myself in a way I've never wanted to before.

Every one of us at some point in our lives has had the struggle with identity.

I spent so long trying to be other people, and it made me really deeply unhappy.

It feels weird to say there's more to me than that, like I'm being overdramatic, and a tear rolls down my cheek. But, no - I do like I feel like there's more to me than just baseball.

I have always felt like I was just sort of waiting to catch up to the rest of myself.

I don't know how happy I was when I met Sting. I always had this difficulty of not really knowing who I was.

I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.

I like to think the world wasn't ready for me, but maybe the truth is that I wasn't ready for the world. I've always arrived too late for my life.

A women who does not know herself has no choice other than to live with other people's evaluations.

I had an epiphany: I was a loser.

I'm a perfectly equipped failure.

You've decided to love me for eternity, I'm still deciding who I want to be today.