When I was a child I wanted to be Pope. My greatest disappointment is missing out on that. I also wanted to be a tap dancer but I never fulfilled that ambition either.

Music is 10% exhilaration and 90% utter disappointment.

My mom wasn't expecting me to end up how I ended up. When she wanted to have kids, she wanted to have two girls, and then she got my brother and me. Which is a disappointment to anybody. You can't help it.

You have a lot of disappointments as an actor.

The last thing I want to do is to present something as 'Stephen King, Part II,' and have it be something that's a big disappointment.

There is a lot of pressure on organizations and on players to win it all. If you don't, there is a lot of disappointment and a lot of fallout because of it.

As actors, we get used to disappointment. We go on a hundred job interviews a year and get two or three jobs.

Enthusiasm is followed by disappointment and even depression, and then by renewed enthusiasm.

I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.

There's a lot of disappointment when you lose a playoff game.

Sometimes when you get disappointment it makes you stronger.

Wet Hot American Summer so far is a financial disappointment and money was lost on it. But perhaps it will find its audience in video, cable, etc, maybe over the course of years.

I choose to live without hope to protect myself from disappointment. It's very effective!

Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't angry some days. But I really have worked hard to put a lot of the anger and disappointment in the past.

Without transformation, you can assume you're at a high moral, spiritual level just because you call yourself Lutheran or Methodist or Catholic. I think my great disappointment as a priest has been to see how little actual spiritual curiosity there is in so many people.

There's one profound difference between secular and religious pilgrimages. It's inconceivable that a Muslim would feel a sense of anticlimax when reaching Mecca. But for a secular pilgrim, the potential for disappointment is always there.

I'm talking to anyone who has been dumped - have not gotten the job you really wanted or have received those horrible rejection letters from grad school. You know, the disappointment of losing, or not getting something you badly want. When that happens, show what you are made of.

There's one profound difference between secular and religious pilgrimages. It's inconceivable that a Muslim would feel a sense of anticlimax when reaching Mecca. But for a secular pilgrim, the potential for disappointment is always there.

There's a disappointment there because I still feel there's an emptiness in my career that just wasn't filled.