Gary Numan Quotes

It occurred to me the thing that broke my heart the most was when I grew up and realized everything wasn't an adventure. I got to a certain age and realized I couldn't be Indiana Jones.

It's really so depressing to be still listed in the Social Register after all the acting I've done.

Because too much of my life was spent waiting to be seen. Hoping to be seen, hoping to be picked. Once you realize that you aren't looked at that way any more, other things start to happen and you have to depend on other things to get by.

I think I'll give it up, the fantasy is over, I wanted to play Spiderman, Peter Parker.

But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape.

After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather.

All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.

I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

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

I find awards frivolous. When I began my career, I was told that I deserved an award for a certain performance, but then I couldn't turn up on the day of the show. Then I was told that the award went to someone else. That's when I realised the truth behind it all.

My earliest memories are sitting on the beach at Blackpool, and I know that if I went back, it would be horrible. I know what Blackpool's like - it's nothing like I imagined it was as a child.

I grew up asking for everything under the sun for Christmas, but I knew I wasn't going to get it all.

I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought.

I remember when I first won the Academy Award and how much I loved it. I just wish there was an award around that you could really believe in again.

I was one of those kids who thought I could be the president of England when I grew up if I wanted to. Then I started acting and realized life is hard, and people are mean. And there's no president of England, and I'm not British.

My mother kept all my awards on the sideboard of her front room, and she polished them. She polished everything religiously. And it doesn't take long for the very thin layer of gold to disappear and the base metal underneath to show through.

My whole childhood, I'd been dreaming of this two-point-four children, living in the country - everything was just going to fall into place, and I'd be this perfect mum. And it didn't happen. I was very shocked and disappointed.

As a kid, I'd buy novels with these magnificent Chris Fosse covers which showed an enormous contraption hovering over a planet, and you'd always think 'Where's that going to come in?' And it never did! It was always slightly disappointing when the contents of a book never lived up to the cover.

I wanted so badly to be in a famous band, and it was not happening. I played drums with different bands and with the Blue Man Group in Chicago, but I definitely felt like, 'Wow, I did not picture my life being like this.'

When I was 18, I went to the East Coast of America, got mugged, and came straight home.

The pin-up thing took us completely by surprise. I found it hard because I got singled out, and I didn't like it. There was a lot of disillusionment.

He looked so profoundly disappointed in me that I wondered for a moment if he was someone I knew.

Traveling is a fool's paradise.

I go out there. I'm out there every day. [Pause] There is nothing out there.