Box Office Bomb Quotes

People will say a movie bombed at the box office but I couldn't care less.

If you plan to miss this movie, better miss it quickly; I doubt if it'll be around to miss for long.

'McHale's Navy' was a disaster. I'm not pretending it wasn't a disaster.

I don't know, I'll probably make the first superhero movie that bombs.

No, Hal Needham without Burt Reynolds has not done well. 'Megaforce' went right in the toilet.

Every movie I touched bombed.

People still come up to me and say, 'Hey, 'Teen Wolf!' 'Teen Wolf Too' closed a week after it opened. Where did they see it?

My next film, 'The Prince Of Players,' was Hollywood's first turkey in CinemaScope - when CinemaScope was new and hotter than a pistol.

I can't think of any actor who doesn't have a flop in his career.

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

Sometimes Hollywood manages to knock a movie in its teeth so hard that it never manages to get back up.

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

Upon its debut, The Room was a spectacular bomb, pulling in all of $1,800 during its initial two-week Los Angeles run. It wasn't until the last weekend of the film's short release that the seeds of its eventual cultural salvation were planted. While passing a movie theater, two young film students named Michael Rousselet and Scott Gairdner noticed a sign on the ticket booth that read: NO REFUNDS. Below the sign was this blurb from a review: “Watching this film is like getting stabbed in the head.” They were sold.

I got to make 'Trishakti' with Arshad Warsi, who was a newcomer at that time. The movie took three years to complete and became dated by the time it was released. The movie did not even get a proper release and bombed at the box office. It was a very bad patch of my life and a big disaster for my career.

Telltale signs that your movie is going to go bad is, one, the producer of the movie flees the country.

The same way that I know that I'll never do a movie as good or as celebrated as 'Forrest Gump,' I know that I'll never do a movie as bad as 'Bonfire of the Vanities.'

We never thought the first movie would bomb.