Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.
If the system breaks down the consequences will still be very painful. But the bigger the system grows the more disastrous the results of its breakdown will be, so if it is to break down it had best break down sooner rather than later.
Fail at love, and the other tests don't matter.
I feel bad when my film flops.
It is not a happy time when a film doesn't do well... Everything affects you, success affects you and failure also affects you.
You're only as good as your last kick.
Revolutionaries were depressed and close to emotional breakdown; after the failure, they left successively.
THE ONLY REAL FAILURE IS TO FAIL OTHERS.
Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
Failure, failure is so important, it doesn’t get spoken about enough, we speak about success all the time.
My first film was a failure. I had many failures too. It's not easy dealing with it.
Women can't forgive failure.
I've never had the luxury - or the nightmare - of having something just blow up and be this huge success and then have everything thrown at you. Being 'the best friend' lessens the responsibility, 'cause I can still go do another movie after something that doesn't do well.
The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers.
Humor is hard, hard, hard. And if you fail with humor, you don't fail halfway. You drop the ball humor-wise and everyone notices.
I hate to lose more than I like to win.
I ran the effort to bring the 2012 Olympic Games to New York City. We lost - on a global scale. To my surprise, life went on, and I learnt that nobody cares about your failures as much as you do.
If you're mentally weak, it can destroy you. Some guys who look talented lose and never come back.
You create something, and when it doesn't work, it's kind of like people make fun of your kid or something.
I think when you're doing a lead role, there is so much more pressure. If you fail, not only do you fail, but everybody else fails, too. As opposed to when it's a supporting role and it's only you that sucked.
Obviously you cannot tell of operations that go along well. Those that go badly generally speak for themselves.
If a film does not do well, there is a certain period when you do feel low. It affects you because you put in a lot of effort.
I've failed at more things than anyone I know. No one remembers the failures.
Public downfalls are more painful and humiliating than private ones.
In general it is a natural characteristic of human nature everywhere, that whenever a man fails in his first contests he becomes disheartened with respect to what is to come.
