My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.
Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.
The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes.
I'm not going to be one of the guys who hangs around if he doesn't have a road to the title.
Even if you win the rat-race, you’re still a rat.
At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those things occasionally but at the time it didn't feel right.
Few American presidents have been unhappier or lonelier in office than Woodrow Wilson.
I know what it's like to be in one place and dream of another. I also know what it's like to feel that nostalgia is a fairly useless thing because it is stasis.
I don't feel secure at all. I don't know what actor would feel they've made it. I feel like I'm just starting.
I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!
Growing up, I didn't know where I was headed, except to the grave or maybe to the gutter. I went through wanting to do a lot of things, but acting wasn't one of them.
A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams.
Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.
Hollywood sucks. I've got the bruises to prove it.
If you chase something too desperately, it eludes you.
I did apply for drama school when I was 17, and I didn't get in; I had a really bad audition.
I would hate to be a bitter, aging actor.
Why go through life feeling cheated? It does nothing but make you bitter.
A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.
I'll bet you $10 right now that there are an awful lot of literary writers who started a long time ago and now they find themselves in this place where secretly they feel trapped. And you know what they really read for fun? They read crime fiction.
It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.
My dream was to become a ballet dancer, but after a year in bed with rheumatic fever at 13, I had grown too tall, and had no muscle tone left. I tried a ballet class and couldn't even do a plie without falling over. It was my first death.
You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.
At the end of the day, I've played six years, haven't made the playoffs yet, that burns me and hurts my heart, so I really want to be playing.
I think when you sign a recording deal, you think, 'I'm going to put out a song and have a hit right away. I'll be a giant superstar. I can take over the world now.' But I put out a song, and it did OK. It wasn't like leaps and bounds.
