It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
Italy to me is like the mean mother. Whatever I do, it's never good enough. People say I'm the queen of Cannes, but in Italy I get turned down for work.
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.
We don't take credit for our accomplishments. I can't tell you how many times you'll say to a woman, 'Oh God, what you did was so great', and they say, 'Really? I didn't think it was that good.'
There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.
I feel like at the Olympics I gave the best performance of my life and I wasn't rewarded for that as an athlete. Yes, my fans and my mom were happy about it, but I didn't win that gold medal.
Even though we were selling more records than a lot of pop acts, we were being treated like the redheaded stepchildren.
So much luck! I'm not putting myself down, I'm not saying I don't have talent - I must have, to have got this far - but I honestly believe that some of the greatest actors in America are tending bar and waiting tables and driving taxis, and it will never happen for them.
I'm always the favorite heading into fights. My accomplishments don't get credit because I'm supposed to win.
[Gigi Does It show] flew so drastically under the radar. I kind of hold it in my back pocket as this thing that I got the opportunity to do that no one really knows I did and that I'm really proud of.
I would like to say, however, that a man might be walking around lucky and not know it unless he tries.
I don't know if there's anything sadder than an actor who hasn't made a good picture, and at least I got a few good ones that will stand the test of time. I feel very fortunate about that.
My neighbors don't care that I'm an author. It's inherently ego-inhibiting.
You have a lot of guys who've been given opportunities in the league. I'm not one of those guys.
Some of what I consider my best work, and some of the best films that I've ever worked on, kind of disappear without a trace. There's no accounting for it. Something connects, or something doesn't.
I don't think I want to win anything I think I want to die unadorned.
Shopify has been a perpetually underestimated company at every point of its history.
People will find any reason not to give you credit for your success because, in their mind, your success is their failure.
On television, it's all just shiny, successful people, and so I feel somebody has to wave a flag for the ordinary people who are not quite sure that they are getting it right.
There's nothing worse than winning but being told by people that you're losing.
I assumed no one would ever listen to my music, and for quite a lot of years, I was right.
My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my most successful books, but I never saw a cent from any of it.
My brother is a great actor. Just because he doesn't harp about his achievements, people don't talk about his work.
I've done nothing with my life but write plays.
I was world champion, but I was never able to celebrate it. It was a joke for me.
