Unsuccessful Quotes

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If you`re successful, acting is about as soft a job as anybody could ever wish for. But if you`re unsuccessful, it`s worse than having a skin disease.

- Marlon Brando

(on he and Gene Hackman as young stage actors and roommates in New York): Psychologically, Gene/myself, we did not think about making it in the terms that people think about. We fully expected to be failures for our entire life. Meaning that we would always be scrambling to get a part. We were actors. We had no pretensions. There was more dignity in being unsuccessful.

- Dustin Hoffman

(Dustin Hoffman on he and Hackman as young stage actors and roommates in New York) Psychologically, Gene/myself, we did not think about making it in the terms that people think about. We fully expected to be failures for our entire life. Meaning that we would always be scrambling to get a part. We were actors. We had no pretensions. There was more dignity in being unsuccessful.

- Gene Hackman

Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn`t, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly.

- Philip Seymour Hoffman

I think my dad is the only Arabic descendent who is an unsuccessful businessman.

- Shakira

You must have to want it so badly, if there is any way you can live without it, get out of it. Being an unsuccessful actor is like having a skin disease. Make sure your passion is not misplaced. - On advice to aspiring actors.

- Tom Sizemore

I hate last-minute shopping, it`s always unsuccessful.

- Cat Deeley

(On his unsuccessful 2004 studio album, "Peachtree Road"): It is probably one of my lowest-selling albums of all time. It was disappointing everywhere in the world, so I have to hold my hands up and accept that the songs just didn`t connect. I`m proud of "Peachtree", but, if I think about it logically, people may have ten or twelve Elton John albums in their collection already. Do they need another one?

- Elton John

(on Max Ophuls) I loved Max Ophuls because he had a very unsuccessful career as far as America was concerned, but he had an irrepressible spirit. He was a brave, resilient man and a great man of theatre and he loved his work, he had an undying enthusiasm. He was a lovely man.

- James Mason

At that time, the people that were in the animated film business were mostly guys who were unsuccessful newspaper cartoonists. In other words, their ability to draw living things was practically nil.

- Marc Davis

Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan `Press On` has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

- Calvin Coolidge

Because the demands on a goalie are mostly mental, it means that for a goalie the biggest enemy is himself. Not a puck, not an opponent, not a quirk of size or style. Him. The stress and anxiety he feels when he plays, the fear of failing, the fear of being embarrassed, the fear of being physically hurt, all the symptoms of his position, in constant ebb and flow, but never disappearing. The successful goalie understands these neuroses, accepts them, and puts them under control. The unsuccessful goalie is distracted by them, his mind in knots, his body quickly following.

- Ken Dryden

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What`s in it for me?"

- Alain Juppe

If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a dollar to call her own.

- Alejandro Freire

For the past ten years the UN has been trying to help the Afghans end their wars against one another, but we have been unsuccessful.

- Allison Barber

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

- Amy Carmichael

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race

- Calvin Coolidge

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

- Bill Lovejoy

Successful colleges will start laying plans for a new stadium; unsuccessful ones will start hunting a new coach

- Will Rogers

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, `What`s in it for me?`

- Brian Tracy

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

- Erich Fromm