Professional Failure Quotes

I go to Milwaukee, I get cut, that really put a funk in me. I'm like, 'Man, it's over for me. I can't even make it in training camp now?'

Any great, long career has at least one flameout in it.

I had a great career and I enjoyed all of it, with the exception of losing.

My whole career has been one wrong answer after another as far as the left is concerned.

I've got nothing left to lose at this point. The work I've done is out there.

By the time I was 30, nobody would work with me. I was friendless, I was hopeless, I was suicidal, lost my family - I mean, it was bad. Bottomed out, didn't know what I was going to do. I actually thought I was going to be a chef - go to work in a kitchen someplace.

I want to be a manager, it wouldn't scare me, but I also think you could be sacked in six months and you'd have to take the kids back to school with your tail between your legs.

I was a pretty terrible lawyer. A really, really terrible lawyer.

You must get your living by loving. But as it is said of the merchants that ninety-seven in a hundred fail, so the life of men generally, tried by this standard, is a failure, and bankruptcy may be surely prophesied.

Ever since I left the 'Sunday Times' there has been a group of scribes waiting for me to fall on my face, and having a go at my commercial record, looking to pick holes in it.

If I don't stay true to my character, I would fail as an actor.

Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.

I used to be an engineer, and I was the worst engineer in the United States of America. That's why I became a comic.

I started writing 'Leaves Of Grass' when my professional life was falling apart somewhat. I just had a movie implode in pre-production. And so I came back licking my wounds to New York, where I live, and started to write a script about a protagonist for whom the exact same thing happened: His life was falling apart.

Ruby Wax has basically ruined my career. You'll see when you watch the programme. I get more intimate with Ruby than I've ever been with another woman.

My artist career failed pretty miserably multiple times.

Failures in film do not mean much to me because at the end of the day, I am successful in my life.

To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

My show 'The Big House' was picked up; they flew me to New York. I'm about to step on stage to announce Kevin Hart's 'The Big House.' And a hand grabs my shoulder, 'Kevin no, they just decided to cancel it.' It's a serious smack-in-the-face business, and either you can take it, or you can't.

The failure of 'OK Jaanu' hit me hard.

You just don't go out when you're over 55 years of age, have a colossal failure, and expect to find work in your field again.

It takes a career, a lifetime, to build up a reputation, and only one misstep for it all to crumble away.

If you're a doctor or a lawyer or teacher, if you only get three things right out of 10, you're considered a failure.

I was fired from my first job in New York. I was just out of school, doing the Welsh play, 'The Corn Is Green,' at Equity Library Theater. I was studying with Uta Hagen, and I was really working well, but they got nervous. They wanted results right away. We had a run-through, and I wasn't there yet, so they fired me.

When you're not working, it does affect you. It destroys you if your film doesn't release.