Unappreciated Effort Quotes

Sometimes literary critics review the book they wanted you to write, not the book you wrote, and that's very irksome.

No, and in fact I get a bit frustrated, because I'm actually quite good at one-liners, and I've had hundreds of them over the years, and they sink without trace, and I get very frustrated. Every party conference I really work on the speeches, and I always have two or three things I'm quite proud of, and no one ever remembers them.

Every time I create an appointment, I create a hundred malcontents and one ingrate.

When I was playing good, nobody was saying I was playing good. When I was playing bad, I would be the first one on the front of the journal.

Nobody ever understands what a pioneer is doing.

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

You can work really hard and well on something, and someone you respect might hate it; worse, they're not empirically wrong for doing so. This is scary, especially for people who haven't been published.

Nobody ever thanks you for saving them from the disease they didn't know they were going to get.

I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.

I always remember this neighbor who would ask me to babysit for her. She looked like Jayne Mansfield, and I remember babysitting for, like, five hours and she would pay me 80 cents, with a phony smile. I used to go home fuming to my mum.

I would gather information and have to give it to somebody else and not get the byline.

Expressing yourself when he takes for granted doesn't work.

People think I'm against critics because they are negative to my work. That's not what bothers me. What bothers me is they didn't see the work. I have seen critics print stuff about stuff I cut out of the film before we ran it. So don't tell me about critics.

Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.

For the greater a man's works for the future, the less the present can comprehend them; the harder his fight, and the rarer success. If, however, once in centuries success does come to a man, perhaps in his latter days a faint beam of his coming glory may shine upon him. To be sure, these great men are only the Marathon runners of history; the laurel wreath of the present touches only the brow of the dying hero.

You get so tired of having your work die. I just wanted to make something that people would actually use.

Many women get involved with a man that you pretty much know isn't suitable and you're kind of breaking your rules, but he's attractive in some unknown way. And then he doesn't even realize what a sacrifice you're making by being with him and he dumps you!

You must be prepared to work always without applause.

I was tired of playing a ghost.

I hate homemade sweaters.

Do you think the UFC is going to owe you a favor when you step up on short notice when nobody else is doing it? There's a reason a whole bunch of us aren't doing it. If you want to be that scapegoat, and think that the UFC's going to owe you one, good luck with that. Let me know how that goes.

When I was in my twenties, I was a self-conscious, out-of-work actress. Then I decided to be a writer and got hired on an NBC show that got canceled after one year. I was heavily discouraged by someone I worked for who told me I wasn't good.

I feel like on 'Free TC,' you know, I feel like I went hard, and not enough people recognized.

Whatever I did, there was always someone around who was better qualified. They just didn't bother to do it.

I worked from 8 A.M. to 12 A.M., and sometimes until 2 A.M. There were no shifts, just a few dozen people, and we all polished glass. I didn't enjoy it.