Quotes About Failure

You do understand when you get into management that you will get the sack at some stage, but that never puts people off trying again.

When you see someone putting themselves out there, particularly when you see someone is failing and failing so passionately, it brings up this bittersweet connection to our mortality.

Direct mail was the basis of a lot of new Right organizations in the '70s and early '80s, and it actually led to the downfall of the majority of them. It's very expensive, and you end up putting your organization more and more in debt if you're not successful with it.

A lot of actors flame out.

It's quite good when you fall flat on your bum on a creative level. Critics can hate what I do, or I've got something completely wrong, and it's good because that ego thing gets zapped for a while.

I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.

I can't bake anything. I'm the worst. My cakes always come out flat.

Sometimes you do films that work really well and sometimes you do a film and you fall flat on your face. Sometimes things work, sometimes things don't work, you never know. I don't think there is any explanation to something like that.

I flew to England to see the rough cut of 'Revolutionary Road.' I was quite moved. As a married man, it's kind of disturbing to see a couple try so hard to work things out and fail so miserably.

If you accept failure, then you can improve on it. It's funny though, because, on the flip side of the coin, I'd say that if you don't accept failure, there is no failure.

If you have a flop movie, so what? And if you have a hit movie, it's 'so what,' too - it's on to the next movie.

Making a big commercial movie is hard when you think about how many of them flop.

You know what I think happened? After 'Rocky,' I was almost set up in the eyes of the media to make a flop.

I have made a career of flop films. And yet, 90 percent of my films are celebrated.

The poor show of a film can be crucial in an actor's career. Maybe that is why some actors choose to act in a lot of films, so as not to be affected by a single hit or a flop.

I can't think of any actor who doesn't have a flop in his career.

Nobody ever sets out to make a flop, but it's going to happen. You have to pick yourself up, dust yourself down and say: 'Right, we go again.'

This is a very competitive industry and everyone is scared that their career might finish if they deliver a flop film.

There is always a hit and a flop, it's part of working in the film industry.

Even the biggest flops have been liked by a few select people.

I am a human, and I fear flops.

Your film is a hit, you bathe in champagne; it flops, a single malt lessens the pain.

I feel bad when my film flops.

I am probably the best example of an actor who has built his career on flops.