Quotes About Failure

If I had gone to a big network at age 28, I'd have been a big failure. I wasn't ready and needed to make a decade of mistakes.

We live in a world and a profession where you win a game, you lose the next one and you're deemed a failure.

There's no more bad feeling than when you get a defeat.

A couple of defeats, and you are gone - that's the danger of World Cups.

I think projects often fail because people do not have a clear understanding at the start what they are trying to deliver.

I'd heard stories about business managers who lost their client's money. My feeling was that if I made any money, I wanted to lose it myself, to be the author of my own demise.

The reality in business and in 'Dragons' Den' is you win some, and you lose some.

Failure is an awful thing, and when I look at the common denominator of failure, it seems to always be the same thing: excuses.

The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.

As an actor, I can just show up and do my job. The success and failure of the film depends on team work.

Critics can get you critical acclaim - nothing more than that. Success or failure depends on the public.

A lot depends on whether your first film does well or not, because people don't give you second chances.

The world is littered with movies about people that are depressed that either did not come out or are not successful.

Revolutionaries were depressed and close to emotional breakdown; after the failure, they left successively.

When my first film flopped, I got damn depressed.

It's kind of depressing. A double relegation is something a few of us have - and we don't want it on our CV's.

You can measure a man's capacity by the depth of his mistakes.

Excuses destroy success every time.

I watch actors destroy themselves by trying to get it right.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

It is a career that can be enhanced or destroyed by success.

I once tried to read the dictionary. It didn't work.

That was Embassy Pictures, they went bankrupt shortly after This is Spinal Tap came out.

At this point, I've really failed at a lot of things. It's nice to be able to say that, in a way. I've failed at music. I've failed at dance. And acting - there have been times when I went out and read lines to audition for acting parts. I believe that if anybody wrangled together those audition tapes, it would be pretty hysterically funny.