Charlie Murphy Quotes

Nobody gets as many chances as I got.

After five awful movies, I admitted failure and said I was not cut out to be an actor. But how many people get a chance to live their dream?

If you fail the first time that's just a chance to start over again.

You learn from being out of the team, but it makes you desperate for another chance, and when it comes along, you just have to grab it. Don't let go.

Life gives you lots of chances to screw up which means you have just as many chances to get it right.

If you don't give up, you still have a chance.

There is no such thing as overnight success or easy money. If you fail, do not be discouraged; try again. When you do well, do not change your ways. Success is not just good luck: it is a combination of hard work, good credit standing, opportunity, readiness and timing. Success will not last if you do not take care of it.

Luck is a component that a lot of people in the arts sometimes fail to recognise: that you can have talent, perseverance, patience, but without luck you will not have a successful career.

There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.

Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.

My favorite fruit is grapes. Because with grapes, you always get another chance. 'Cause, you know, if you have a crappy apple or a peach, you're stuck with that crappy piece of fruit. But if you have a crappy grape, no problem - just move on to the next. 'Grapes: The Fruit of Hope.'

I had a job, I got ill, I left the job to get better, and while I was getting better, I wrote some stories. I sent them to some publishers and the fifth one who replied said they'd take them. Then they went bankrupt. Then that bankrupt publisher got bought by a bigger firm. Story: in the end is the beginning, and in the beginning is the end.

I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.

I started off as a model and struggled for some time until I got a break as an actress. I was too stubborn to let go and was sure I was in the right place at the right time. I just fought and I think that's how I am where I am today.

The Heat gave me an opportunity when nobody else wanted to.

When I was in the 9th grade I was flunking out of high school. And that's why I'm so encouraged by the fact that America is the place where opportunity and American exceptionalism is alive and well.

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.

When one door closes, fortune will usually open another.

Conflict states just need someone to give them a chance. Nobody wants to be a failure.

I had my years of struggling. Some of my shows failed miserably, and I was upset by it, and it dented my confidence. But I never stopped. I kept going for it. And when I returned to New York from Los Angeles, I mean, it was make it or not - that was my last chance. And what a great chance it was, to make it in my own hometown.

Sometimes you think you didn't win, and you focus so much on that instead of really looking at it from the perspective of it not being your time yet.

Factors such as timing, luck, and destiny have a bearing on success. But success and failure are good teachers. Failure means something better is waiting for you. But I will allow myself to get upset at failure only if I know I have not given it my all.

People say, 'I failed out of college! My life is over!' Well, it's not over. It depends on what you do with it.

I know all too well what it takes to have a hit: A little bit of luck, a little bit of work, a little bit of talent.