Jerry Garcia Quotes

MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.

There has never been a company that has wanted me, which sounds insane.

I used to joke that I was trying to sell out, and nobody would buy me.

I'm the unknown everyone's already sick of.

I've had heartbreaking auditions where they don't even look at you. You're out before you're in.

When I wasn't the flavor of the week or month or day, those were hard times.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

I'd love to sell out completely. It's just that nobody has been willing to buy.

Some might have liked us more if we had intervened less ... some might have disliked us less if we had intervened more, but ... having concluded that we intended to intervene no more and no less than we actually did, nobody had any use for us at all.

You watch award shows, and not only are you not nominated, but you're not a presenter and haven't been invited to any of the parties.

No team wanted me. No overseas team. Not even a D-League team.

It's easy to feel spurned, especially when you return to your apartment and stare at the hundreds of rejection letters tacked to your bulletin board.

Usman's a scrub, man. He's not relevant. No one cares about him. People don't want to see him fight.

Teams passed on me, that happens.

I couldn't find a group that wanted to do what I wanted to do. No one was really up for it.

Golf made me feel like a loser. So I dismissed it.

He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered.

It wasn't that I got pinned against my locker, but I was intensely aware that the things I valued weren't shared by anyone. Girls didn't like me, and I had few friends.

No one gave a crap that I was the kid from 'Free Willy'. You're not in some wispy fantasyland where everyone's telling you 'yes' all the time, which happens a lot to actors.

The times I didn't get jobs I wanted, I remember feeling dispirited - really crestfallen.

I didn't quit movies. They quit me.

I have turned down a lot of garbage lately.

Lots of people hate my stuff.

Nobody else took what I was doing seriously, so nobody would want to work with me. I was thought to be a bit eccentric and maybe cranky.

It never really worked out for me in my own country. They said, 'You're not famous enough for the lead roles, and you're too present for the supporting roles - you'd overpower the lead.'