Dennis Crowley Quotes

Behind every great idea is someone saying "It won't work"

Friends and family will tell you why your ideas won't work. Most are left-brained employees and specialists and NOT entrepreneurs.

Of course, people told me, 'Mikey, you will never be an actor. You don't have the look. You're ugly.'

If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up.

When you innovate, you've got to be prepared for everyone telling you you're nuts.

The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.

I'm so used to naysayers.

The hardest part is just hearing people saying that I won't amount to crap, and that I'm going to be a bust.

There are always more people to prove wrong.

So many people were ready to write me off as being washed up at 20, I started to believe all that negative stuff myself.

Every time you make something that somebody likes, your impulse is to remind them that if you hadn't made some of these other things that they hated, you wouldn't have been able to make the thing that they liked.

The only people who try to tell you that you can’t do something, are the people who have failed

I was told from a very young age that I wasn't gonna be anything. That I wasn't gonna amount to a single thing.

They say you can't do it, but sometimes it doesn't always work.

Everybody told me this 'girl on the piano' thing was never going to work.

Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

Because 98 percent of our ideas are not great ideas, or everyone would be a billionaire. So yeah. That's something people have had a lot of experience in: being told our idea is bad or our performance is bad. I think that's the one common thread between all working actors is that they have a pretty thick skin - or you'd like to hope. You're used to rejection, that's for sure.

Everybody wants to make something they think is a surefire winner, though nobody knows what a surefire winner is, in my opinion.

I have this self-conscious inclination to just say "anyone who hates it, that's cool that's fine!"

Sometimes all that saves me is being willing to make mistakes. There are projects that strike me as so beautiful, important, complicated, or just plain big, that they convince me of my own inadequacy. This awful state of reverence leads to paralyzing brain freeze. At times like that the only way out is for me to decide, 'To hell with it. I can't do it right, so I'll do it wrong. I can't do it well, but I can do it badly.' Sometimes, with luck, while I'm sweating to do it wrong, I stumble on a right way.

Doubters will doubt to the end.

Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.

I can say with confidence that I never bought into the hype, and I made sure that the people around me didn't buy into the hype, and I did not surround myself with people who fed me the hype. And I'm glad of that as well.

Move fast, take risks, it's okay to try big things you're better off trying something and having it not work and learning from that than having not done anything at all.

Don't give up. Don't listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don't get it tonight.