Letting ourselves down in some fashion is such an integral part of daily life that the paucity of literature on the subject is baffling.
I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.
No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it's not enough.
You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.
Expectations are an evil thing.
Even if I tried to be my dad, it would be a mediocre, slightly embarrassing version.
When you have expectations, you are setting yourself up for disappointment.
It's frustrating when you make the efforts but the conditions are not there to make a great tournament.
You can't meet Labour's tests by failing to provide answers.
I felt terrible when I went to Roma because I hadn't fulfilled the expectations of the Florentines.
My problems with 'Bonanza' were problems of communication. What we discussed would be, never was. I thought it would be a sophisticated show. Instead it never went beyond the comic strip level.
If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
I'm always disappointed when I don't score.
Usually, with the work I've done, by the end, I usually feel like it's a failure. It doesn't matter how it's received.
A lot of disappointed people have been left standing on the street corner waiting for the bus marked Perfection.
I don't have the biggest range on Earth, obviously, and I feel like people give me a lot of flak for that, but I don't really claim to have a big range.
I'm proud of 'Stop Making Sense,' but it's a little bit of an albatross; I can't compete with it, but I can't ignore it either.
I remember playing games and having tears roll down my face because it felt like it was never going to be good enough.
I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.
I often feel I'm a disappointment to people because they expect me to be the guy in the books. When I sit next to someone at a dinner party I can see they expect me to be quick and witty, and I'm not at all.
I don't feel like what I've done are 'accomplishments.'
You're always a little disappointing in person because you can't be the edited essence of yourself.
Being in Los Angeles is this brutal awakening, where I feel not good enough as soon as I walk into a room, and I'm wearing the wrong thing, or I don't have enough make up on. It's all about image.
We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting.
Everybody expects you to play well, and when you don't have the results, that's tough.
