Unsatisfying Outcome Quotes

Even if you win the rat-race, you’re still a rat.

The Hatton fight left a bad taste in my mouth.

The thing about the movie 'Navy SEALs' is that it was just such a waste. The script could've been shaped to be much better, and you just hate to see all that talent and passion go to waste.

I used to think that nails-down-a-chalkboard was the worst sound in the world. Then I moved on to people-eating-cereal-on-the-phone. But only this week did I stumble across the rightful winner: it's the sound of a baggage carousel coming to a grinding halt, having reunited every passenger on your flight with their luggage, except for you.

Life doesn't always end up with a bow wrapped around it.

Fame was not at all what it was cracked up to be, as far as I was concerned.

By the time we've made it, we've had it.

There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.

I was almost expecting the Olympics to be the biggest thing ever, but it wasn't. It was just another race.

Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.

There's so many R&B songs where guys are talking about a clingy girl, like, 'I don't want a girlfriend, and this girl's so clingy, and blah blah blah.' But I'm a woman, and I've been in situations that have been the reverse of that, so I wanted to tell that story.

During my freshman year of college, it became undeniably clear that I didn't want to be great again. I correlated greatness with misery.

The problem with pity parties is very few people come, and those who do don't bring presents.

We ceased to be a band the moment we made it. It left us with nothing. We felt like a failure although we had commercial success.

I did '24;' it was terrible. I hated every moment of it.

I do a lot of things, and I'll get excited about them - maybe it'll be a song in a movie - and then it comes out, and you're like, 'Aww, that was cool, but it wasn't quite as big a deal as I thought it would be.'

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

The process of a date, I think, is terrible. Horrible. Because everything is banal and predicted.

I used to not get work even on TV, but wherever I went, they'd treat me with respect but never offer work.

'The Da Vinci Code' was pretty awful. A good idea disappointingly handled.

Taking a night off from comedy to go on a date with someone I'm probably not going to like anyway sounds like the worst trade-off in my mind.

Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.

The only thing I learned is that failure sucks, and you never want to do it. There's not a lot to be said for that particular lesson.

I don't watch 'The X Factor' any more. Why do I want to see someone say the same old thing - it's all they've ever dreamed about - then lose and burst into tears and go into neurosis? They just want to be famous - it doesn't matter how.

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.