Has-been Quotes

I am not a has-been. I am a will be. (Lauren Bacall)
I'd rather be a 'could-be' if I cannot be an 'are' because a 'could-be' is a 'maybe' who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a 'has-been' than a 'might-have-been' by far; for a 'might-have-been' has never been, but a 'has' was once an 'are. View quote
Milton Berle
I am not interested in releasing best of stuff and I have not given my permission. You release best of packages when you're a has-been and have nothing new to offer. View quote
Amanda Lear
I'd retired for about six or seven years. Coming back to the business, I found that I was sort of not quite a has-been, and it wasn't a new career, it was just kind of difficult to crack the nut, so to speak. View quote
Julie London
Remember, it's better to be a has-been than a never-been. View quote
Tiny Tim
I was still a kid when I gave up modeling and moved to London to devote myself to music. At the time, I had a band. Two years later, broke, I was forced to return to New York to go back to modeling and earn my living. But, when I'd call my agent, she replied to me: "You are now an old-fashioned model, you have a 'has-been' look." In fact, I could not even manage to get castings. Can you imagine what it's like when you're told that you're over at the age of 18? View quote
Milla Jovovich
Have you heard It was on the news Your child can read you like a bedtime story Like a magazine Like a has-been out to grass Like afternoon T. V. Why is my life going by so fast? View quote
Roger Waters
I can only say the first thing that pops into my mind is I remember, years ago, seeing kind of a has-been country singer working - when I first moved to Nashville - in a bar in a Holiday Inn. View quote
Jimmy Buffett
When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. You become a has-been. It's not very interesting. I don't want to be this guy who has only succeeded in France. I could say, 'O.K., that's it; merci.' But I'm not interested in that. View quote
Gad Elmaleh
I'm the first has-been star singer ever to sing with the circus. I mean, Presley sang with the circus, but that was before he became a star. View quote
Tiny Tim
Rush Limbaugh is a has-been hypocrite loser, who craves attention. His right-wing lunacy sounds like Mikhail Gorbachev, extolling the virtues of communism. Limbaugh actually was more lucid when he was a drug addict. If America ever did 1% of what he wanted us to do, then we'd all need pain killers. (Alan Grayson)
The Will-be and the Has-been touch us more nearly than the Is. So we are more tender towards children and old people than to those who are in the prime of life. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
It seems to him that he extends backwards (or is it forwards?) without beginning (or is it end?) and he can't just now remember whether the great tales and plots which he supposes he knows and forever broods on lie in the to-come or lie dead in the has-been. But then suppose that's how secrets are kept, and age-long tales remembered, and unbreakable curses made too. View quote
John Crowley
Better to have been a 'has-been' than a 'never was. View quote
Sam Donaldson
Extinction confers on the has-been the same mythological status that imagination confers on the never-was. View quote
Michael Bishop
a has-been superstar. View quote
Amitabh Bachchan