Failing Quote by Carroll O'Connor Download Open image “Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.” — Carroll O'Connor ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Failing Half Men Reputation
“The sad thing is that when movies like this fail, executives think that proves there's no audience for unusual, original pictures - because they… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The picture I was hoping for is never the picture I get, but yeah, I think they fail all the time. Fortunately my clients… — Gregory Heisler Copy Share Image
I have made over 70 pictures and in only 10 of them did I portray a really 'bad man.' — Peter Lorre Copy Share Image
Some of the downbeat pictures, in my opinion, should never be made at all. Most of them are made for personal satisfaction, to impress… — Doris Day Copy Share Image
Most real failures are due to limitations which men set up in their own minds. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw. — Galen Rowell Copy Share Image
I hate pride, but if I were going to be proud of anything it would have to be something I'd done myself. Race pride… — Carroll O'Connor Copy Share Image
I do talk less now because the sound of my voice saying over and over the things I said years ago embarrasses and depresses… — Carroll O'Connor Copy Share Image
One irreducible residual of 38 years in the business is the number of lasting, loving friendships I have made. — Carroll O'Connor Copy Share Image
We don't really need reviewers, just first-night reporters who will tell us faithfully whether or not the audience liked the show. — Carroll O'Connor Copy Share Image
My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter. — Carroll O'Connor Copy Share Image
Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man. — Carroll O'Connor Copy Share Image
The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable. — Carroll O'Connor Copy Share Image
I have heard show business characterized as a refuge for childlike persons in flight from all things harsh and real. — Carroll O'Connor Copy Share Image
It's the character that is the strongest that God gives the most challenges to. Take your struggles as a compliment. — Carroll O'Connor Copy Share Image
Talent can be developed, gift is God-given. But artists have both. — Carroll O'Connor Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul will be consigned to eternal torment in the never-ending subterranean barbecue if you fail to follow the whacky edicts of one particular set of puckered dogwhistles or another. You may recall from the great movie Strange… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To… — Margaret Mead Copy Share
Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail? — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
I would warn against holsters with devices for quick-draw. Devices always fail when you need them most. — William Powell Copy Share Image
You can’t bake a cake without getting the kitchen messy. Halfway through surgery it looks like there’s been a murder in the operating room.… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I wake up every morning fearing I am going to fail. But I love a challenge, big or small. There's so much I want… — Michelle Mone Copy Share Image
