Career Downfall Quotes

I've seen many actors go awry by making the wrong choices early on.

I've seen young actresses have major falls from their career, and that's just not what I want.

In 2007, Michael Grimm, former Marine, former FBI agent, accountant and attorney, was poised for success as a small business owner. Instead, as alleged, Grimm made the choice to go from upholding the law to breaking it. In so doing, he turned his back on every oath he had ever taken.

The truth is I made a few good movies in the '50s, then went into freefall.

I bet I'm the only person in history who went from being the star of a sitcom to the host of a public-access show in less than a year.

One of the things that happens to careers out here is that people destroy themselves because they begin to think they're wonderful. They begin to think they know what they're doing, and the minute that happens, it's over.

When I was nineteen years old, I was the number-one star for two years. When I was forty, nobody wanted me. I couldn't get a job.

The two oldest professions in the world — ruined by amateurs.

I've seen a lot of actors in a lot of different stages of their careers, and I've seen it come and go. People get a sense of entitlement from it. And that's when it starts getting you in trouble.

I could not keep my success. I had such a great run. By 93-94, it all came to an end and I had to go to Bangladesh and work there.

When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.

After I was fired from Disney, I did some of the worst movies ever made and I got professionally involved with a manager who said it didn't matter what you did as long as you kept working. I wound up completely broke.

As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk.

Madison Avenue is full of masochists who unconsciously provoke rejection by their clients. I know brilliant men who have lost every account they have ever handled.

In a few hours, I’m going to be banished to the surface, my belongings raffled off as novelty items and my living space given to someone else—my reputation destroyed. I’d rather have your head than your soul at this point in my illustrious career.” - Al

I had people think I was brilliant, then 'Half Baked' bricked. They literally look at me like a homeless person.

Before 'Grease 2', I was called the next Richard Gere, then after 'Grease 2', nobody would touch me.

Silence is the sure sign that you're on your way out in Hollywood.

I did Star 80, which was a magnificent experience as well, but still, I was at the height of my career at the beginning. Then I had to jump down the ladder and climb back up again, which I didn't understand. That was very hard.

Carelessness with details sinks more careers than anyone will admit.

Imagine being 30 years old, thinking you were a media titan, and now you are labeled a 'scam artist.'

Most music careers slowly but surely go down.

I think when Kevin Nash put himself on the booking committee and then gave me my first loss, that was beginning of the end.

All political careers end in failure, but few did it so quickly as David Cameron's. He came to power promising not to 'bang on about Europe' and ended up having the continent's name chiselled into the lid of his political coffin.