Mickey Arthur Quotes

I lost money, coaching jobs, a shot at the Hall of Fame.

When you don't work for a while, immediately you get a little black mark next to your name.

Ay - 'The Green Fool' business, the libel action over the head of it - did me a lot of damage. It destroyed the momentum.

When you're on a series that's been cancelled, there's a little bit of a stink on you.

I'd been fired by CBS News in a semipublic way, and as the months went by, there was a perception that I was damaged goods.

After I was fired from Disney, I did some of the worst movies ever made.

I lost my job in the most public way possible, and the press had a field day with it all over the world. And guess what? I'm still here.

One bad review can destroy me. It hurts so bad.

My agent had warned that, while a fine film would do my profile a world of good, a bad one wouldn't help me at all, and I suspected she was soft-pedalling the latter possibility. The effect of a truly execrable adaptation is worse than neutral. The stink rubs off.

When 'Fitoor' didn't work, it affected me a lot. It hurts when a film doesn't do well.

Being unemployed has so many real and palpable ramifications but there are also psychological side effects which you can only understand if you've truly lived through it.

You want to do your job well so that people in the future say, 'OK, he's not bad, let's hire him.'

One wrong move, and you destroy your career.

It's always a little bit personal when your work is cut down for whatever reason.

Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money.

Well, thing is, after they cancelled 'Zen', I didn't work for eight months. And in that case, it was not my choice. After I've done something that I'm really proud of and I think changes the way I'm perceived, the immediate reaction is: nothing.

Our profession is the chastest of all; even the shadow of a fault tarnishes the luster of our finest achievements.

My career got sidetracked after fighting Holmes.

One of the defining experiences of my life came in the mid-1980s. After working for two years as a geologist in Colorado, I lost my job and my career during that long recession.

I never really thought that I was going to get out of coaching ever. In my fifth year, I thought I might get out. You have those thoughts in any job. But I never really, really thought I was going to get out.

I told CBS, 'My career is going down the toilet, and you're pulling the chain.'

I've worked so hard since I was 18 years old, and I'd hate for the memories to be boiled down to being a Melania Trump impersonator.

Kentucky is the best job in basketball coaching. Why would I leave?

A guy who gets fired and humiliated in the press can lose a lot of confidence.

When I made 'A Few Small Repairs' and it did well, I followed that up with having a baby, and that was not received well at my record company. I was written off, and that had a bearing on my career.