Sidney Sheinberg Quotes

I've done every series that had gone down the toilet.

Every movie I touched bombed.

Borderlands' is a horrific failure if our goal is to entertain the world.

Sometimes you'd come up against a brick wall... or sometimes you go into a fill and you'd know halfway through it was going to be disastrous.

During the summer, Screen Gems launched the New Monkees, which miserably failed I understand. I never saw it.

Sometimes you learn more from films that aren't terribly successful and, indeed, sometimes you learn more from real disasters than you do from the ones that succeed.

Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

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.

Our act started at the bottom and went downhill.

One could see that what you are writing was that today's meeting was a disaster. Now, for the first time, I can tell you that you are a disaster.

Every now and then you dig a dry hole.

This is the history of failure.

People are quick to be like, 'You're irrelevant. You're a flop; you're washed up.'

I can't consider the Fifth Dimension to be a success story.

I don't want to carry the burden of a flop. I don't fall into that trap.

I don't know whether it was my fault or someone else's fault, but I was extremely disappointed that my first film was a total washout.

You have the Midas touch. Everything you touch turns to a muffler.

Could the world fall?

The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented. The laws of chance suggest that something should have gone right. Not here. It puts a nail in the coffin of low-rent 3D, but it will need a lot more coffins than that.

Every big computing disaster has come from taking too many ideas and putting them in one place.

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same.

It was our worst-ever day, the worst result in my history, ever. Even as a player I don't think I ever lost 6-1.

Ill fortune seldom comes alone.

While enthusiasm may be necessary for great accomplishments elsewhere, on Wall Street it almost invariably leads to disaster