James Acaster Quotes

When you are new to the business, you think if you give a really bad performance, that's one they will print. You will be judged. You just have to be brave.

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

It's OK to screw up. For me, this was the big revelation when I was writing my first book, 'In the Woods': I could get it wrong as many times as I needed to.

I've bombed on stage millions and millions of times. And that's part of it. You go up with a half-baked idea, and you bomb, and so what? Nothing bad happens if you bomb.

One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you're allowed to fail.

I grew up on the stage, where you just throw yourself into projects and don't get in your own way.

I can only put myself in the process and try to learn through the process. Sometimes it will go well and sometimes it won't.

At this point, I feel like I can allow myself to be goofy and take more risks, and even if I do fall on my face, I know it's not the end of the world and at least I tried to do something different.

Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.

I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.

If a person is not willing to make a mistake, you're never going to do anything right.

All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Mistakes are acceptable if they're the result of moving forward.

I need to feel like I have that freedom to make mistakes and to just try things.

By the time they get to 6th grade honor roll students won't risk making a mistake, and sometimes to be successful, you have to risk making mistakes.

Every day you make mistakes. And the key to making mistakes is first you have to make them, which means you're in the game. So don't be afraid of getting in the game.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed - you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

You can't go into new life experiences without the understanding that yeah, you may fail, but knowing you might fail can't stop you from trying.

I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

I never knew how to do anything before I did it, really.

A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.

You need the willingness to fail all the time.

Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.

If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.