Unrewarded Quotes

A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.

Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it.

It's hard to keep a positive attitude coming to work every day, feeling like you're getting better when the same result is losing.

Hee that looseth his due, gets not thankes.

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

I am scared; I don't know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so hard and of being talented, to be rewarded like this? Never a penny, tormented all my life. It is horrible; one cannot imagine it.

A courage which looks easy & yet is rare; the courage of a teacher repeating day after day the same lessons - the least rewarded of all forms of courage.

And all for love, and nothing for reward.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

Back home, no one looks at me as a star. At least I know my mother doesn't.

Sometimes you just work, you work, you work, and you have no life, no boyfriend, you have no more friends, no more nothing, you just make movies, and you're tired, and you don't know why. Then everybody says, 'Oh you are so lucky, you are working!' And you're like, 'Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's so great!'

You're a human being, and every time a list of prize nominations comes out and your name isn't on it, you do have that thumb-in-the-eye feeling.

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.

I tried. But not everybody thought so.

When you don't feel good about a film after taking it up, spending 10-15 days on the shoot sets becomes difficult.

We tend to not value anything that we get for free.

Too many of us are lonely ministers practicing a lonely ministry.

I have long served virtue, And never ta'en wages of her.

I opened the door for a lot of people, and they just ran through and left me holding the knob.

Hosting is a thankless job.

When you play well, and you don't win, in the end, you get tired. You've lost something. You've lost time.

No one remembers the runner-up!