Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.

In Britain by contrast we still think that class plays a part in determining a person's life chances so we're less inclined to celebrate success and less inclined to condemn failure. The upshot is that it's much easier to be a failure in Britain than it is in America.

America thinks of itself as a meritocracy so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.

I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.

Well I think first of all there was a failure to have real clear information at our disposal. There was a real lack of situational awareness. We didn't have the capabilities on the ground to give us real-time accurate assessments of the physical condition of the city.

I think there's something quite interesting about the almost tragic quality of a lot of overwrought prose because it has a much more self-conscious awareness of its own failure to touch the real.

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you I think.

I think that failure by your own standards is certainly a form of success.

Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful it's just really another kind of tangential thing in his life.

I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.

I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.

If I didn't have children I think my life would be a failure.

I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear but it's a fear that fuels me that makes me want to work harder that makes me take on more challenges.

The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.

I think I've always been somebody since the deaths of my father and brother who was afraid to hope. So I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

One must never assume that a character is sympathetic because of either the actor playing them or the fact that they're a lead. I think that's a recipe for failure actually because if they become unsympathetic you lose your audience.

I don't think there's any way it could have failed. We don't know failure in this band. We didn't know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word.

I'm kind of a failure. I mean I'll be honest. I'm successful in that I'm getting to work on great stuff but I think I'm a failure in all the personal stuff that is most important to me.

Well I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure.

I think success has no rules but you can learn a great deal from failure.

Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.

Life is so fresh life is every day so new if we are fighting only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure failure in your endeavor to do your best.

And in reality I don't think it's a real documentary. It's more a story of her life. It's a story of survival. It's a story of the time in which she lived. The story of success and failure.