My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.

My films seem to be about men's struggle with failure.

When you experience a failure as a leader don't hide it - talk about it. Your missed opportunity will encourage others to take risks.

African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.

I get asked 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.

I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy about the failure to destroy Al Qaeda and about revenge.

My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.

Failure is an enigma. You worry about it and it teaches you something.

If you've gone into a marriage and you haven't been clear about how you're going to handle money how you want to raise kids who is going to work or stay home or what have you then you've set yourself up for failure.

About the only problem with success is that it does not teach you how to deal with failure.

I've probably earned the right to screw up a few times. I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa Asia and Latin America?

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking large ambition and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning there will be no failure.

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman the formula the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success.

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.

You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time you want to be truthful to the predecessors because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.

And actually about three weeks ago Micky Peter and I were in Vegas at the MGM Grand. And we did about 12 shows in seven days. It was quite an experience.

It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience.

My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make and vice versa.

I've had a lot of experience in independent film and about how to choose. You've got to be very discerning about where you put your five bucks and where you cut and what you don't cut.