Browsing Topic Best Letdowns Quotes

When we got off the streetcar at Times Square, it was somewhat of a letdown. Newspapers were blowing about the road and pavement, and Broadway looked seedy, like a slovenly woman just out of bed.

The research period of a film is the most exciting part of the process, and filming is sometimes a letdown because when you’re dealing with biopic material, the real thing is always much more intricate than the story told in the film.

And now, I’m going to sleep. I’ll see you in the morning, he said to Simon. You, he said to Jace, well, I guess I’ll see you around. You’re the first Shadowhunter I’ve ever met. That’s too bad, said Jace, since all the ones you meet from now on will be a terrible letdown. Kyle rolled his eyes and left, banging his bedroom door shut behind him.

I’m never going to have to work. None of my descendants are ever going to have to work; this is going to make me so much money. It was such a letdown when I realized that wasn’t my invention.

It’s very easy to go through your whole life and never really get anything done or have any real meaningful interactions or relationships. All of a sudden you’re dead, and I’m going to say that’s got to be a letdown.

Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.

I was absorbing a sorry truth of show business – rejection is the norm and acceptance the oddity. I was learning to cut the tops off my highs and stay with the lows where the rejections and letdowns would be shallow.

Young people have so many letdowns that people don’t realize.

The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward.

It was a beautiful letdown, the day I knew, that all the riches this world had to offer me, will never do.

The moment I think about past letdowns or future hypotheticals, I mentally put myself on shaky ground. If I clear my mind of chatter, I can succeed, just like I did in 2006.

It’s a letdown if the comedian doesn’t finally actually really sit on his hat.

You start at a young age, going on auditions, and you think you did a good job and expect to get that role, and you don’t, and it’s a letdown, a disappointment. So you tell yourself to just do the work and disconnect, because you have no control over the outcome.

You don’t want to be the first person to tell your 5-year-old, like, ‘You’re going to have a life filled with disappointments and letdowns – enjoy!’

Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it’s a letdown, they won’t buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.

It is such a letdown to rise from the dead and have your friends not recognize you.

You dream about the Olympics for so long and you have that one day, then it’s over, and when you don’t run well there is this huge letdown. It took me years to deal with that. I feel like I almost had to cleanse myself of that experience.

This is the place to be. Baseball town. The intimacy of Fenway, the toughness of it. I like that. I’m used to it. I need it. If I went somewhere else, it might have been a bit of a letdown. I like the edge.

Regardless of how good or bad a collection might be, it’s a letdown after the show is over. It’s done. Something you’ve worked on for months is just over.