Any great, long career has at least one flameout in it.
Once your network has lost confidence in you, you're headed for the dustbin of history.
My career has been over since 1990.
I had hoped to do a lot more to help promote science in this country and in Europe, but I cannot see how that can happen. I have become toxic. I have been hung to dry by academic institutes who have not even bothered to ask me for my side of affairs.
Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist.
When you blink, you're on the back end of your career.
I went from winning three Champions League titles to not playing.
After all, didn't I blow a magnificent career?
The worst disgrace that can befall a producer is an unkind notice from a New York reviewer. When this happens, the producer becomes a pariah in Hollywood. He is shunned by his friends, thrown into bankruptcy, and like a Japanese electing hara-kiri, he commits suttee.
Men and women of high professional standing were reduced to the status of vagrants, unable to find employment and forced to eat the bitter bread of public or private charity.
I felt it was more a mechanism to destroy me than anything else. I came to Washington like a prime steak, and after being here for a while I feel like a poor grade hamburger.
her confirmation process in the Senate
Self-importance has ruined more good journalists than bad liquor.
I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg.
My career is pretty much over. I'm out in the Valley eating soft-boiled eggs.
Not much more can happen to you after you lose your reputation and your wife.
It used to be said of a man who had suffered a catastrophic setback in his line of work that he had been handed his head on a platter. We are being handed our heads with tweezers now.
I had done a sitcom and a movie and hosted the Emmys, and all of a sudden, I lost everything. As someone put it at the time, I was suddenly like a Ferrari in neutral.
