Jack Dee Quotes

I reappointed him and he disappointed me.

A Poem from Edna St. Vincent Millay: Grown-up Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs, That now, domestic as a plate, I should retire at half-past eight?

I hate meeting my favorite bands because then it just ruins it.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.

I turned 30, and everyone told me I would feel different, and I didn't.

All my life, I've been sort of a professional optimist, full of good cheer about matters political and journalistic. I always thought I'd get older and become an unnaturally cheerful old fart. But it's not happening.

As a child, I thought, 'Once I am a grown-up, there will be no more fear, no more worries,' and it turns out that's not true.

I'll never forget when I was 12 years old. I couldn't wait until the day I was 16 and could drive a car. I thought that'd be the end of life's problems. I mean, you can drive! What is there left? And then I turned 16 and realized there were still problems.

I know I felt like I was ready to be an adult long before the rest of the world agreed. I'd already realized that a lot of grown-ups didn't know any more than I did, and some of them were even dumber than I was, and even the ones who were smarter weren't using their smarts for things I necessarily considered worthwhile.

Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up

Welcome to adulthood." Cob said. "Every child finds a day when the realize that adults can be weak and wrong just like everyone else. After that day, you are an adult. Like it or not.

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Starting at about, I guess, forever, I've always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn't wait to be 16 and get a driver's license.

I was a boy, suddenly treated like the men and expected to act like them.

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?

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

You think that adulthood will hit and you'll suddenly be more capable. But that doesn't happen, ever, does it?

I feel like everything will be a letdown after 'You're The Worst.' It was such a great experience.

When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.

It took me a long time to make that leap to being a grown-up and responsible adult because I carried on being a child actor into my late twenties. It's OK to be precocious when you're young, but when you're a man of about 27 or 28 and playing a 17-year-old in a TV show, it kind of prolongs your childhood.

It took years, honestly, to deal with the disappointment of Beijing.

I mean it shouldn't hang you up emotionally if your record fails.

I thought 'The Well' was going to launch my career, but nothing happened.