Failure quotes

“Our world is changing. We French lost our war in Indochina because we failed to learn about the people we sought to lead. It's natural, therefore - correct, even - that they should resent us. How could they do otherwise, when we refused to treat them like fellow human beings?”
Jeremy Irons - René Gallimard

“- John McClane: Listen, you fail I cover your ass. I fail you cover my ass!
- Zeus Carver: And if we both fail?
- John McClane: Then we're both fucked.”
Bruce Willis - John McClane
Samuel L. Jackson - Zeus Carver

“It's like Adam and Eve. He was fine grooving in paradise, but Eve wanted something scary. She wanted the fucking edge. She wanted to jump off cliffs just so she could see what it was like to fall.”
Donovan Leitch Jr. - Darius

“I think we've given that deed to the wrong woman.”

Stan Laurel - Stan

“The first chance I have to be somebody, I'm beaten out of it by an ignorant cowhand who can't even write his own name! I can write mine... and I'm going to write it across the territory in letters of fire and blood if I have to!”

Walter Pidgeon - William "Will" Cantrell

“When I first went to Hollywood, I had a legion of yahoos, all plotting my down fall. It was a waste of time, of course. I was perfectly capable of destroying myself.”
Danny Huston - Orson Welles

“There is nothing to understand. Only this: I am a man who could have been great, but was not.”
James Cromwell - William Randolph Hearst

“- Thomas A. Edison: We failed again. That's the net result of nine thousand experiments.
- Michael Simon: We know the work you have done. We are as sorry as you are that you didn't get results.”

Spencer Tracy - Thomas A. Edison
Felix Bressart - Michael Simon

“Congratulations, baby. Tonight you could've gotten laid, but instead you got fucked.”
Sandra McCoy - Mercedes

“Oh no! We suck again!”

Rob Schneider - Townie

“You gotta embrace your worthlessness. You know, just think about all the greatest losers throughout history: UPN, the metric system, Kevin Costner...”
Kevin P. Farley - Doug Linus

“Great, Angela, my friend the do-gooder. Honestly, you make me feel like I should go to church and confess or something.”
Margaret Langrick - Jill Anderson

“In 1966, everyone graduated from St. Basil's, except me.”
Kevin Dillon - Rooney

“I'm forty, I'm not married, I don't fly jets, and I don't have a dog? I grow up to be a loser.”
Bruce Willis - Russ Duritz

“You try. You fail. You try. You fail. But the only true failure is when you stop trying.”

Jennifer Tilly - Madame Leota

“You are a beautiful girl with great potential. I'm not going to see your future as some nothing girl in a nothing factory in a nothing town!”

Susan Sarandon - Adele August

“When you through a stone in a lake, it's not happy 'til it hits the bottom. Make sure he doesn't drag us all down with him.”
Tony Rohr - Traveller

“- Grigori Rasputin: You'll always fail because your soul is dead.
- Dr. Botkin: I have performed many autopsies in my time, but I've never located a soul.
- Grigori Rasputin: How many memories or emotions have you found?”
Alan Rickman - Grigori Rasputin
David Warner - Dr. Botkin

“I used to imagine that I'd been given to the wrong family at birth, and that somewhere in the world my real people longed for me. From where my father stood, my failure to dog-paddle was only the first of many failures. Failure to speak clearly, failure to sit up straight, failure to make friends every time we moved to another dreary upstate...” (continue)(continue reading)
Kevin Spacey - Quoyle

“- Rodrigo Mendoza: For me there is no redemption, no penance great enough.
- Father Gabriel: There is. But do you dare to try it?
- Rodrigo Mendoza: Do you dare to see it fail?”
Robert De Niro - Rodrigo Mendoza
Jeremy Irons - Father Gabriel

“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.”
Whip Hubley - Hal Montgomery

“My darling, you have to be standing up in order to be able to fall. I mean, if you keep sitting on your ass, nothing's gonna happen.”

Soni Razdan - Saroj Rai

“I had a traumatic experience in high school. I tried to help someone, and it backfired horribly.”
Amy Irving - Sue Snell

“Any bird can build a nest, but it isn't every one that can lay an egg.”
Stan Laurel - Stan

“Without the Toxic Avenger gone, we will never win the hearts of the little people of Tromaville. And without Tromaville, we'll never take New York. And without New York, we're just another failure!”
Rick Collins - Inc. Chairman