Flop Quotes

You do the work and you want people to see it; but, um while I'm doing the work, the result doesn't matter at all to me. Ultimately, I don't, I don't care whether the film is - you know - some big giant box-office bonanza and I don't care if its a complete flop. To me, when a film gets made and it's actually finished it's a success. They're all a success in their own way.
Johnny Depp

Success, Work, Care

It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough.
Quentin Crisp

Give, Enough, Last

The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Second, Half, Century

If I tried to make a commercial album, it would be a complete flop. I have no idea what the world at large likes.
Brian Eno

Idea, Tried, Large

I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
Michael Caine

American, Quiet, Dirty

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.
Joan Baez

Violence, Bigger

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.
Joan Baez

Violence, Worse

When you flop, that's just another message that you don't know how to play me. Stand up and take your medicine like a man.
Shaquille O'Neal

Play, Another, Stand

One of the biggest mistakes people make when they cook for other people is to think that it has to be fancy and elaborate. This results in enormous expense and nine days of labor, plus you end up trying to assemble a croquembouche in front of your guests and everyone's experiencing flop sweat.
Ted Allen

Mistakes, End, Trying

If I flop, let 'em pan me.
Knute Rockne

One of the best things that ever happened to me was Rocky Horror being a total flop in New York as a play. I mean, it was a disaster, and it was the night of the long knives as far as the critics were concerned.
Tim Curry

Best, Long, Mean

I was writing a scene where a guy was choking another guy to death. You can go online and type 'chokeholds' and watch scenes where martial artists choke each other out. You can hear what noises they make when they go unconscious, see how their bodies flop and everything. YouTube is amazing for the more detailed stuff.
Daniel H. Wilson

Death, Amazing, Writing

I don't know if a song is going to be a hit or it's going to flop. I never know. I just do the music and if people like it, they like it.
T-Pain

Music, Song, Hit

I could have easily been too afraid to say 'yes' to Chicago, because it requires so much I haven't done before. If I am a flop at singing and dancing, maybe my love for it will carry me through.
America Ferrera

Love, Done, Through

No one tells you what to do if you completely flop at the beginning of a performance.
Joshua Bell

Beginning, Tells

After you do a joke a few times, you have material that you know works. Although sometimes I have a joke that has worked a bunch of times and then one night it'll flop. And that's when I really take a hard look at myself and say: 'Well, that crowd is obviously wrong. That crowd has absolutely no idea what it's talking about.'
Aziz Ansari

Hard, Night, After

The do-it-yourself version of pensions is a flop, as many Americans have painfully learned.
William Greider

Learned, Painfully, Version

A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
Patrick Marber

Family, Death, Couple

'Howard the Duck!' That's a really interesting movie. I appreciate my career, because I've had a lot of very interesting ups and downs, and most people... That movie is such a famous flop. In a land of a lot of flops, it's kind of awesome to be in a really famous flop. I mean, it's kind of a poster child for flops.
Lea Thompson

Famous, Mean, Career

I think that you get the mood of a song stronger if you get it right that way. On the other hand, you put some songs out live and they don't catch flight. They just flop. It is hard to tell until they are out there.
Peter Gabriel

Live, Hard, Put

It takes time and energy, and if I'm working, then I'd rather flop in front of the telly than put on a tiny dress and work out how to get myself to God knows where. I mean, lazy some would call it.
Daisy Donovan

Work, Time, God

You write a hit the same way you write a flop.
Alan Jay Lerner

Same, Write, Hit

If you have a private firm and you spend a ton of money to pay employees, but what you produce is a flop, there will be no value to GDP. But government spending all gets counted as contributing to economic growth. That's why in the early days of creating these measurements, some people didn't want to count government spending.
Robert Higgs

Money, Government, Why

I'd rather share the glory of a hit than star by myself in a flop.
Kate Jackson

Rather, Star, Hit

I wish you well and I hope it will be a huge hit, because that would be very good for me. And if, God forbid, it's a terrible flop, well that would be very good for me.
Jonathan Harris

Good, God, Hope

I'll be a flop in movies. Besides, I don't like 'em, and I never did believe there was a place called Hollywood. Somebody made it up!
Patsy Kelly

Movies, Made, Place

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