Unheard Voice Quotes

Nobody wants to hear me sing! I can sing, but nobody wants to be there for it.

I have not been taken seriously as an actor.

A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.

They all knew my name, but no one heard the music - I didn't look the same.

I always sang in English. It's just that nobody heard me.

All my life I feel like I haven't been heard.

Like a lot of us, sometimes I'm preaching to the choir, and sometimes my voice doesn't even get heard at all. Sometimes I think that what I'm writing now might not even have an impact for the next three or four generations. Sometimes I sit there and write, and I think, "It'll be two hundred years before they get what I'm writing about."

I mean, I'm an artist by nature; no one considers what I do and no one knows who the heck I am, but that anybody does - it is astonishing.

After the writer's death, reading his journal is like receiving a long letter.

It is true that I am still permitted to cast my vote, but I do so with the foreknowledge that it will not count .... My membership is at once a fraud and a farce.

I was tired of playing a ghost.

I have the soul of a singer and do splendidly in the shower but the world will never hear it. Basically, I'm the only Irish person who can't carry a tune.

I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.

I learned at a young age that my voice was not wanted or heard, so I went silent. I did what I was told and set goals based on what everyone else expected of me.

People don't hear me talk. They don't expect me to.

As screenwriters, we struggle with our own success. We have wallpapered our world and now we can't get anyone to notice the picture we just hung.

It's quite frustrating taking a back seat in films.

I think I have some interesting things to say and I don't think anybody out there is saying them.

Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?

To be used in a part without depth is a frustrating feeling, when you know you have something to give.

I thought it was a wonderful line - right on the cutting room floor.

I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notices.

I never did anything original my whole childhood. I was invisible.

Nobody knows my name. Nobody knows me at all, but they call me by the character of the last movie that I was in.

They seem not to listen to what I have to say, so I'm going to quit.