Samuel West Quotes

The status quo sucks.

I usually hate most of my work: probably at least more than half of it.

I was never comfortable at United, really.

You know you can't satisfy anybody.

I don't want to be a part of a show that is creatively dissatisfying.

You’re unbelievable,’ said Rosie. ‘Look at me when I’m talking.’ I kept looking out the window. I was already over-stimulated. ‘I know what you look like.

To have faith doesn't mean you get any less frustrated when you don't do your best, but you know that it's not life and death. Take what you're given, and when you continue to work hard, you will see results. That will give you the confidence you need to keep going.

I can't get no satisfaction.

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

You study all your life, you work really hard to do your best work onstage and onscreen, and then you make your best money playing an ant.

The fact that somebody is reducing your salary is just telling me they're not satisfied with what you're doing.

High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just plain useless.

A show is exhausting when it stinks. It's exhausting when you have to work overtime to make something work.

You know, you don't please everybody.

You finish a movie and you think, there, you've done it, really well, or best you can. But if you watch it, you see it was just bollocks.

In Fall Out Boy, I noticed that I wasn't putting all that much soul into it. It was just kind of screaming, I guess. I was just dying to get out of there!

When I was at Kingsoft, I was under pressure and worked hard, but the results were not satisfactory.

You have to push yourself when you're older because it's very easy to fall into the trap. You start to fall apart - you just have to do your best to paste yourself together. I think doing things and being active is very important. When your mind is busy, you don't hurt so much.

So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years.

I'm just deeply disappointed that once again we may have to settle for the lesser of two evils.

To all who leaned upon Mr. Gladstone, who trusted him, and hoped for something from him—chips, nothing but chips—hard, dry, unnourishing, indigestible chips.

You always have the nightmare of, you know, working with the guy that you've just admired forever, and then he's just totally disengaged and awful to be around.

I just don't throw things against the wall that aren't gonna stick.

I find it incredibly annoying going to every race to finish seventh, or even fifth.

I do what work I get. I'm disappointed half the time.