Alice Munro Quotes

Sometimes I get so depressed 'Bout what I haven't done. -NEVER

I assumed no one would ever listen to my music, and for quite a lot of years, I was right.

I should be a success and I'm not and other people- younger people- are. Younger people than me are on TV and getting their lives in order. I'm still a nobody. When am I going to not be a nobody?

So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.

A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.

Charlie Brown is almost a tragic figure.

I didn't have a job because nobody would hire me. My friends were getting hired, and I couldn't even get a job interview. That really rocked my self-esteem because I didn't understand what I did wrong on those job applications.

I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.

There's only so much you can do of trying, finding yourself very close to getting a part and then not getting it.

In my first few years as an actor, I took one terrible TV job after another. But even as I laughed off my awful roles and made fun of myself to friends, my work made me cringe - I dreaded anyone's seeing it. I was crushed that I wasn't doing anything I was proud of.

After hundreds of auditions and nothing, you're sitting home and wondering, 'What am I doing?'

Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star of his own Halloween special.

The hardest thing as an actor is that you work really hard constantly for these roles, and you invest so much in it. And when they don't come to fruition and nobody sees them, there's a part of you that dies a little bit. It's like, 'Ah! But I worked so hard!' But that's the business.

It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection.

It's hard when you put a year of good work into something and someone at the top says no, and they pull your show's title off a bulletin board and chuck it in the trash.

I never felt like I had made it.

You're constantly getting rejected in acting. You get rejected more than you get hired!

To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.'

I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.

You never get every job you want.

The blind date that has stood you up: your life.

I remember when I was on 'Saturday Night Live' my first year, and I wasn't getting much. I was down; I was ready to quit.

I feel I let my team down today. My heart is bleeding for everybody else. I felt like I should have gotten it done today. That's how it is. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don't.

I trained myself to not get my hopes up, because there were so many times in the room where you'd be like, 'This feels amazing, this is a hit!' And it never saw the light of day.

There are times when I think, 'I'm going to get this part. I know I am. I'm going to get this.' And then I don't, and I'm wondering, 'What happened? I went back five times!'