Lee Ann Womack Quotes

You can't have a perfect show every time.

I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?

Now my way of doing it is I always get disappointed, but there's always a level of high quality.

Perfectionism rarely begets perfection, or satisfaction - only disappointment.

We are all failures – at least, all the best of us are.

Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

I look around at people who had success so early and then didn't know what to do with themselves.

I foolishly thought that if I just 'made it' then everything would be okay. And everything wasn't okay.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.

Hope is the raw material of losers.

I don't like failing at anything.

I don't measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can't because I'll just end up crushed.

I haven't won a World Cup. There's things that haven't been finished, and I'm not afraid to fall flat on my face trying.

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.

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

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

You have to look at the discrepancy between what you hoped and imagined and the reality of yourself and all your shortcomings.

Sometimes your dreams come true, and it's a real drag.

Usually, with the work I've done, by the end, I usually feel like it's a failure. It doesn't matter how it's received.

My only drive was to be the best dancer in the world, but I never won the world championship.

I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth - that I hadn't set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if 'The Big Trail' had been a success and launched me as a star.

Nominations come and go. It is not going to happen to you every year, and I am very well aware of that.

Yes, 'Spider-Man' has had an infinite capacity to trouble and disappoint. But it's also been the greatest triumph of my entire career.