The first two movies I directed failed, when I was 21 and 23, and that was the greatest thing that could have happened.
In the game of life, it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.
When you lose your reputation at 19, you lose everything.
I don't know if there were many pros for me playing early. I feel like I dug myself a pretty deep hole that rookie year.
I made a few mistakes in the beginning of my career. I didn't have anybody to guide me. I didn't have a secretary. I didn't call up directors, or meet people asking for roles.
I wasn't ready for the majors when I joined the Pirates in 1955. I was too young and didn't know my way around.
If you listen to my early music, I didn't know how to mix. I barely knew how to record for real, and I didn't care.
Raising a child is very much like building a skyscraper. If the first few stories are slightly out of line. no one will notice. But when the building is 18 or 20 stories high, everyone will see that it tilts.
When I first got into business, I made a lot of bad decisions.
One of the things I did early on in film was over-enunciate and talk too loud.
The biggest mistakes, early on, involved foreign policy and involved the strategy for health care.
There are different things I've done that I wouldn't do again that kept following me. That's the price that you pay when you make mistakes early on.
Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.
I've certainly done some turkeys along the way and made some dumb choices in my career, mostly early on. I'm one of the lucky ones who got to make a lot of mistakes very early when no one was paying attention.
I think if you make a mistake, it had better be early in the race so you can bounce back from it.
Stories worked much the same way . . . A false note at the beginning was much more costly than one nearer the end because early errors were part of the foundation.
Start in a small TV station so you can make all of your embarrassing mistakes early and in front of fewer people!
I cringe a lot when I look at my early talk-show experiences.
If you look at a lot of people's careers, the first couple of movies, usually, are the most embarrassing.
Early publication can be a dubious blessing: we all know writers who would give anything not to have published their first book, and go about trying to buy up all existing copies.
Some young stars go a little too far too soon.
He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
It's like first grade where you make all your mistakes and people see it and yet some people see that there's something there that's really valuable. That's the way it went for more than 2 years almost 3 years of playing.
