William Fichtner Quotes

I've made so many mistakes. But it is my feeling that you learn from failures, so I welcome them as often as I can.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Too many people don't do things for fear of falling. You'll never get good unless you fall. Experiences and new accomplishments are feelings we should never lose.

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

No one can be an expected to be an expert at something before they have tried it.

It took me two years to walk around a chair with ease; it took me another two years to learn how to laugh onstage - and I had to learn everything.

It's more interesting for me to figure out how to be superior in areas where I'm naive, where I'm a novice.

It's okay to make mistakes as long as you learn from them.

I learnt to relax a little more and enjoy the process, which is something I didn't do in my first movie - understandably, I guess.

People are afraid of trying something new, of failing even before they start. My point is, what is the worst that can happen? You will fail and friends who warned you will say 'I told you so!' So you made a mistake - and will hopefully make many more. But hey! The real tragedy is not the mistake you make, but not learning from it.

You make mistakes to learn from them.

I am comfortable with doing mistakes. It's a normal thing. If a mistake happens because of my own decision, I am OK with it.

No one's going to see my mistakes; I just need the safety of these mistakes to lead me to the right answers.

If you are afraid of making mistakes, you won't learn anything and you won't make much money.

Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works.

Sports teaches you there is always a second innings in life. If you fail today, there's a second innings maybe two days later. Maybe there's another opportunity coming up three or six months later. If you look at mistake as learnings and commit never to make a same mistake again, then you actually get better with every mistake that you make.

For many years, I didn't even like the idea of doing a one-person play. Public speaking got me past that. I've always been good at public speaking, but I never really enjoyed it. Then I started to really enjoy it, and that's made all the difference.

Often I'll try things that just won't happen the way I'd like them to, so hearing that they're not working saves me some wear and tear the next time around.

There's nothing wrong with failing if you learn from it, and I've failed out here plenty.

The more I act, the harder it gets, since I feel like I still have so much to learn. Whenever I embark on a new project, it always feels like the first time. If it were easy to me and I felt like I knew everything, my acting might have been different. I think the feeling of 'newness' keeps me on my toes and concentrated.

I've done well over time but made lots of mistakes, too. Learn from your mistakes.

Concentrate and think upon the problem in mind until a satisfactory conclusion is reached, and then finally go ahead. If you have made a mistake, all right. Never find fault with a man because he has made a mistake. It is only a fool that makes the same mistake the second time.

I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

Also, I plan to screw something up on every movie I do so that I can learn from my mistakes and become a better director with each project.

It's interesting to watch myself with an audience; I'm trying hard to learn from it.