Barry Mann Quotes

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

The fact that I'm going to be unsuccessful at times is pretty well-balanced by the fact that I'm going to be successful at others.

The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.

It doesn't matter whether I qualify or wildcards.

I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.

You're not going to win all the time.

I've had close chances of success, and sometimes politics and people don't work out.

You're not always going to get the outcomes you feel like your talent deserves, that you feel like the big picture deserves. And what's real is how do you respond in those situations?

The more I risk being rejected, the better my chances are of being accepted.

When you go to an audition, don't hang on to it because no matter how well you feel it went or how badly, you just never know what the outcome is going to be.

Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're happy it just stays out of jail.

You can't win them all.

You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.

You can't always expect to work with a director who guarantees success.

Everybody wants to win, but everybody doesn't win.

It's the best fifth place I've ever had.

I'm trying to avoid having regrets about missing opportunities. That would be the worst thing. Like having an audience waiting, and not working hard enough, and coming out with a record that disappointed them.

If you're not scoring the frustrations build up.

You may not win the Super Bowl. Your kids may not go on to be doctors and lawyers and everything may not go perfectly. That doesn't mean it was a bad plan or the wrong thing. It's just like a football season. Everything's not going to go perfect.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

Well, fortunately we found out that the runner-up our particular year was going to get a record contract also. So it was kind of a - it was bitter sweet but it was an opportunity.

I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.

Whether I fall on my feet or fall on my arse, I dunno. You've got to take those risks.

I expected results.

You have to accept that when you don't get the part, it's to do with all sorts of reasons completely beyond your control, unless you know it's because you weren't prepared.