Quotes About Failure

I just assume that I'll fail at something for several years - that I'll try my hardest and still fail for several years. With writing, that turned out to be wrong. I tried my hardest and failed for about fifteen years.

You're going to have hardships, you're going to have a lot of good plays, you're going to have bad plays.

Dance Theatre of Harlem has done a lot of good things well, a lot of good things badly, and a lot of bad things - it doesn't matter how.

Rodgers & Hart had a few flops before they clicked. You know, it happens. I don't know anyone who always gets away with everything.

I applied to come to Harvard and they didn't accept me.

I brought one big question with me to Harvard. Why do smart companies fail?

Having been built in the fashion I was as a child - created and then deflated - has left me with a distinct feeling of failure. Because I did not live up to my precocity, I experience it to be like a cross between a has-been and a never-was.

I didn't want to get divorced, but at the point where your children are part of it, you have to do something. I would really love it not to have happened because it haunts you, it will never go away, and it is probably the biggest failure, and I have to live with that.

What's overwhelmingly clear is 'Havana' didn't work for people, but why it didn't work I don't feel I can put my finger on in a way I can learn from.

Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.

That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing this and doing that, but they are broke.

Medicaid is one of the most failed forms of health care.

You want to talk about something that truly changes the game in this country, Medicaid is one of the most failed forms of health care.

I worked out of Hollywood for 10 years and I had my heart broken half a dozen times, so I know all the things that can go wrong.

You couldn't make 'Heaven's Gate' today. Even were you to quadruple the resources to make the movie, you couldn't make it because the people don't exist.

If you're selling t-shirts as a heel - you're selling them - then you've failed miserably.

Sometimes, the people who are helping you can drop the ball.

You're going to be the goat and you have to learn to accept it. When you're the hero, you're going to have to learn to deal with that too.

You gotta learn that if you're gonna take the last shot of the game, it's either gonna go in, or it's not gonna go in, and you're either gonna be the hero or the goat.

If you win, you're heroes. But if you don't, then you're losers. That might sound harsh, but that's the way it is.

It's funny, when you become an actor and you're successful, they don't want to talk about acting any more. 'Hey let's talk about that stuff you were fired from.'

At the end of the day, 'Hidden' was a great experience. Because we know what it's like to fail. And we know it will happen again.

The director does not have anyone to blame but himself. He or she cannot hide behind anybody. If a film is a hit, everyone gets the credit, but if it flops, only the director can be blamed.

And my mistakes are always the highlights on ESPN's 'SportsCenter.'