Chris Avellone Quotes

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

I have ideas that I will probably never write now.

It sounds ideal, a sort of beach childhood. But it wasn't really. I didn't use the beach very much at all.

The deepest personal defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.

I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. That's the saddest thing of all, because they're locked up and no one else can make them.

I mean, I've sold all these scripts and nothing's been made. Studios have closed, stars have died. I had a director find Jesus. And the pictures just don't get made.

Sometimes, I probably do mourn the fact that I no longer make films.

I might have got somewhere with 'The Ladykillers,' but forty minutes were cut. A lot of me was cut with that forty minutes.

As time goes on, we suppress our dreams, which really makes me sad.

What will die with me when I die, what pathetic or fragile form will the world lose?

I think I'm what they call a never-was.

When I was young, and I'd get A's, I'd get this good feeling of all the things that I could be. And then I'd never became any of them.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

My childhood taught me nothing... zero.

Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.

I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day.

A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

I'm the first to admit that I never achieved my potential as an actress.

Don't go to the grave with life unused.

That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.