Unfinished Journey Quotes

My father died in 1989 before I knew what I was going to do with my life. I had just graduated from college. My mother died just before 'Sideways' came out. She knew I was an actor, but she never saw me become successful.

In 2006, I started making a film called 'Restraint of Beasts.' While I was making it, I had a personal disaster. My wife fell ill, so we stopped shooting halfway through. And then sadly, my wife died.

Life doesn't always end up with a bow wrapped around it.

I'll always have a chip on my shoulder until I hang my shoes up. No matter how long I play this game, the chip on my shoulder will always be there. That won't change.

'Vegas' was something very close to me. I had such a blast doing that. I'm still a little upset that we never really got to shoot that final episode. So many people were invested in it. I'll always be sad about that.

We may not know the whole story in our lifetime.

When I'm playing, I'm never through. It's unfinished. I like to find a place to leave for someone else to finish it. That's where the high comes in.

We have come a long way and we have a little further to go.

I'm far from being a consummate artist. I mean, this is just my first album, and the work is very new. I'm just beginning, and I'm certainly not worthy of demigod status. There's absolutely no danger of me reaching that.

Man always dies before he is fully born.

It happened to me on 'King of the Hill,' where I'd left it before the end and didn't really participate in the ending, and I always felt a little bit like I wanted to try a different version of that story.

Not everything has a happy ending, and not everything has an ending. Some things just kind of dribble away or cut off abruptly.

I did once answer the question 'What would you say on your tombstone?' I know what I would say: 'Mario Cuomo, 1932 - dash,' and, 'He tried.' That's it.

God ain't finished with any of us yet.

I'm still an embryo with a long long way to go.

Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.

I love basketball, and I didn't get a chance to finish my career the way I wanted.

'The Restraint of Beasts' is a painful subject. We'd shot 60% of the film when I had to stop. The material looks great, like nothing I've ever done or even seen before. It could have been really great, definitely original.

You can't die with an unfinished book.

My frustration is I quit Arsenal too soon. I left a club I loved without really showing how good I was.

Your experiences are what made you what you are today. So when tragedy happens in people's lives, and things are left unsaid, it can be very unsettling. The lack of closure can linger.

Sometimes artists die young, and we don't know exactly why. I think that, in life, you have these special individuals, whether it's Jimi Hendrix or Janis Joplin or Kurt Cobain. They're on this journey - they're on this earth to change things, to make things incredible - and then they're not with us anymore.

What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?

The American journey has not ended. America is always still to build ... West is a country in the mind, and so eternal.

Some of the greatest moments in life come from moments that are incomplete.