Quotes About Failure

I let the American people down.

'The Robe' was lousy but an almighty hit. I was dull as ditchwater and an almighty flop.

When I started my career, I gave four flops, and then four hits, two flops, two hits, and then three flops.

I always had a fair share of hits and flops.

After my debut film in 2002, I didn't deliver any big hits.

My hits are not hits.

You learn more from the flops than from the hits.

Directors have good and bad movies. My father also made some flop movies, and he had bigger hits, too. That should not determine anything.

It's definitely good to have a hit from time to time, though not too often. If you have a few hits in a row, people start to think every film you make will be a hit, which is a big mistake.

Hits and flops will always be there for any actor.

Hits and flops happen in everyone's careers. Be it an actor or a filmmaker, you can't let that affect your conviction.

When you don't get hits it's depressing.

I'm awful at hockey.

I'm an absolutely dreadful hockey player.

The fault always lies in the candidate or the head coach or the guy holding the ball.

I wasn't afraid of failing. A lot of people fear failure, and I think that holds a lot of people back. But a lot of times, it's possibly the best thing that could happen to you because you learn how to get back up, you learn how to do it better and you're stronger from that.

I really do think that putting expectations on a holiday is setting yourself up for failure.

I did have good movies but they did not work in the Box Office... I did 'Holiday,' 'Aksar,' 'Plan' they were all good movies but they did not work.

I had people think I was brilliant, then 'Half Baked' bricked. They literally look at me like a homeless person.

While I do my work with a sense of honesty, I tell myself, 'What is the worst that can happen? I fail, right?' So, will I stop living after that? No. I will try again.

It never seemed that honorable to me, and I guess I was always afraid that I might fail.

Math was a two-part exam and I once didn't go for the second part. I knew I'd done so badly on the first it was hopeless. I re-took it about four or five times. I think I eventually got it by getting the top GCSE grade.

I am hopeless with machinery. I could never learn to drive a car except into a wall.

There are always going to be times when it doesn't flow as much as you were hoping. So of course I'm going to fail. And when I do fail I hope I fail better and better, again and again. I am happy to fail.