I don't like failing at anything.
I ain't gonna win no Oscars.
I had to admit I'd pretty much failed at the whole low-profile thing.
There's nothing worse than getting third.
It is finished, is never said of us
A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
I am not flash at all really, never have been.
I'm like an overgrown child! I don't know how to do anything!
It's funny, I never think I'm doing that well. I've never, ever. I just constantly think, 'This isn't working out.'
Washington specialized in doing something that does nothing.
I do not give the honorific name of 'poetry' to the primitive and the unaccomplished.
I don't want to be an also-ran.
Let's just say that I've spent a lot of time being not very successful.
I pass my days in a state of exasperation. First, with the fools who do not want any of the things that ought to be done, and second, with the equally obnoxious fools who insist upon so much that they cannot get anything done.
I'm very conscious of... I don't feel like a star.
It sometimes feels like I'm not doing anything.
At my age, no one is married, no one has kids, no one has a career.
Our movement has accomplished nothing—anywhere.
I think I've cornered the market at playing ineffectual. I think I'm quite accomplished at it.
I've played a lot of untalented people.
When you are not successful, nobody listens to you.
Sometimes you go for weeks without writing successfully, and you don't feel like a writer anymore. When friends ask me how my week was or how I'm doing, I think back on it, and I've just been by myself. Like, I'm just a sketch.
It might be quite boring if you did something and thought it was perfect.
Acting makes me feel broke again, it makes me feel unaccomplished.
