Unsuccessful Career Quotes

I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me.

My career started slowly and then tapered off.

I know plenty of wrestlers who are 15-0 and going nowhere.

I am not successful, in terms of Hollywood.

I've done shows that aired on American TV, but none of them proved to be successful, so yes, no one here knows who I am.

The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken.

First of all, with due respect to my dad, he wasn't an ace composer. He never got the success that my uncle did.

In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of doors slammed in my face because I wasn't that kid anymore, and I wasn't a character actor, and I wasn't a leading man, and I wasn't whatever Hollywood was looking for.

My career has been over since 1990.

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

I resented that my career wasn't going the way that it was supposed to. And I was angry that I wasn't getting the parts that I wanted.

It never really worked out for me in my own country. They said, 'You're not famous enough for the lead roles, and you're too present for the supporting roles - you'd overpower the lead.'

Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.

I never really caught on in America. I don't have an agent. It's too strange for me.

All the movies where I play nice guys don't seem to do very well.

So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman.

I've had a terrible career.

I was not a successful TV comedy writer.

Lost in a crowd of greats, not a single Oscar. That's showbiz.

My sister wanted to be an actress, but she never made it. She does live in a trailer. She got halfway. She's an actress, she just never gets called to the set.

I wanted so badly to be in a famous band, and it was not happening. I played drums with different bands and with the Blue Man Group in Chicago, but I definitely felt like, 'Wow, I did not picture my life being like this.'

I'll be remembered as the biggest bust in NBA history. But I can't do nothing about that.

Every footballer plays with the hope that people love to watch you. But, for me, there is no sympathy or interest. I don't seem to have any charm for fans.

The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.