Professional Mistake Quotes

It takes a career, a lifetime, to build up a reputation, and only one misstep for it all to crumble away.

I made a mistake. I should've had two accounts, one for personal and one for office. And I didn't, and I take responsibility for that.

A good rule of thumb is if you've made it to 35 and your job still requires you wear a nametag, you've probably made a serious vocational error.

I usually destroy unreleased material. It has a way of coming back to haunt you.

I always thought it would be a terrible mistake, and I would hope that none of my news journalist colleagues would ever consider it.

I would rather do twenty TV series than go through what I went through under that Rank contract I signed a few years ago for which I blame no one but myself.

Jessie Wallace was the first time I erupted. She was late, she was young. She's not like that any more. I lost my temper. It was silly and I burst into tears and ran up to the producer. I said I had been terrible and amateur.

The dentist drills some more and you hear him make a mistake. And to cover it up, they all say the same thing: "Okay, rinse."

I wish I'd not taken off all my clothes in my first television series, 'The Camomile Lawn.'

One wrong move, and you destroy your career.