Unsuccessful Pursuits Quotes

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

I'm in a position where I'm being continually knocked back for the kind of independent films I want to be in because people don't know who I am.

You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.

It sounds so dramatic, but I'll say it: Hollywood just doesn't know what to do with me. And it's not for lack of trying.

I have had some dark times, it was a frustrating 2019. I was pushing for the Terence Crawford fight but, through no fault of my own, I did not get any of the big fights I wanted.

A lot of people got lost in Hollywood while trying to become a star. They lost themselves.

I'm just this committed dilettante. I think what I've found is that I've tried to do a lot of different things in my life and discovered I'm not as good at them as I'd want to be.

I met someone the other night who's 28 years old, and he hasn't worked a day since he left college because he's pursuing a dream he'll never, ever realize: He thinks he's a great singer. Actually, he's crap.

My career is a burden, but I can't just fade out like a pathetic sore loser. More often than not, I'm just making a fool of myself for the hundredth time, and that wasn't part of the plan, initially. I'd be happier not having any kind of public presence whatsoever and just hiding behind the sleeves of the CD.

It can be a miserable profession, acting, because you always want what you can't have.

After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.

I still have horrible luck with girls.

A lot of times, you just don't get the jobs you want to get.

All the conscious decisions that I have taken in my life have never borne fruit. Not even come close! So, I am just very happy not planning.

Men lose more conquests by their own awkwardness than by any virtue in the woman.

I was a frustrated musician, frustrated designer, frustrated art director, frustrated novelist, right. I'd fail at all these different professions.

I can see my ghost trying to get that Academy Award, forever stuck in a casting office. Can you imagine? I've spent enough time in audition rooms. I don't want to be doing that in my afterlife.

I'm always attracted to the hottest boy in the room and that never works out.