Marlo Thomas Quotes

It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.

My father never saw me play ball, and I was an outstanding ballplayer. I missed all that adoration.

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

I was in a movie called 'Before & After' with Meryl Streep. I was edited out of the movie, but no one told me. I think I was 18 or 19 years old. I sat across from her and asked her every question about acting. I completely embarrassed myself.

There never were any roles for my kind of acting. That's the story of my life.

You have a lot of guys who've been given opportunities in the league. I'm not one of those guys.

I've been in so many good movies that I felt like nobody saw; it's a pretty dreadful feeling.

My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

And I thought my loss my loss was not, certainly, the end of the world, but to lessen the enthusiasm of those young people who were signed up, I thought that was tragic.

I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.

Sometimes I feel like a has-been who never was.

I think that there were only two people in my high school that were comfortable there, and I think they are both pumping gas now.

I'm incredibly sad that my mother's not here to see my kids and that my kids don't get to know her. And she didn't meet my husband. That's one of the hardest things. I don't even know how to put that into words.

I hated my work. It never seemed to me to be what I should be doing.

Those who gave away their wings are sad not to see them fly.

There are things you're supposed to learn in life. My biggest regret was terminating a pregnancy when I was about 18. Every day, I think about who that baby would be now; it still makes me sad.

I have made a number of movies that I have never seen. It's not a matter of ego. It's a matter of being disappointed. It's really a shame. It's just as difficult to make a movie that no one cares about as to make a hit.

I know so many people who are eaten up by regret. It manifests itself in so many ways. They either become mentally a bit off, or they get very fat, or they are just horribly depressed.

I'm disappointed about how my career ended.

At that time, I feel sad, and I feel no one knows how hard I work and how many tears. They only know the score. At that time, I feel very lonely because no one understands since they haven't been world No. 1 before.

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.

I'm afraid I don't think I really have a life on which something can be written.

What upset me the most was not that I would die, but that I was letting down my parents. I felt very guilty for chasing this dream career of mine, at the expense of my parents.

It's sad that some people who have one exciting moment spend the rest of their lives rehashing it.

I've done nothing with my life but write plays.