Public Failure Quotes

I've only really had one period when I lost myself and felt like I was going to lose my career, and that was when I first began presenting 'X-Factor' spin-off 'The Xtra Factor' two years ago. I was worried if I did a rubbish job live on Saturday night TV that my music career was going to get affected and I would lose everything.

I don't really get embarrassed a lot because I feel like life goes on. I mean, I fell on stage one time; like, I tripped one time. My voice cracked... That's pretty embarrassing.

When you're under a microscope from an early age, you realize that people aren't always going to like you. And that's OK. And you're going to fail publicly, and that's OK, too.

I'm willing to make a fool out of myself in public. I'm also willing to make those mistakes that you're going to make the first time you go out, so hopefully the next time it will be better.

When you mess up publicly, it can be difficult to get vulnerable again or to put yourself out there.

I've fallen over on stage a couple of times, but I've only ever bruised my ego.

The more you fail in private, the less you will fail in public.

It hurts when you are at a club you loved, a place where you think you might want to end your career, and things go badly.

We're in Madison Square Garden, I can't let you beat me in Madison Square Garden, are you serious!?

Getting booed off, definitely not the best feeling.

Literally falling on the ice and having to pick yourself up in front of thousands of people is not an easy thing to do. The thing that you learn is to pick yourself back up, to learn from your mistakes.

You have a bad day at the office, four people know. You suck in a movie, everyone knows.

The things that I have done that haven't been as successful have been things that have been largely out of the public view, which is great. It's terrible, when you're a theater writer, to have a big flop publicly.

If I were trying to avoid embarrassment, I wouldn't have stumbled my way through 'Dancing with the Stars.'

You know what, when you screw up in the ring, it's so embarrassing.

I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.

Horrifying as it was to crack up in the public eye, it made me look at myself and fix it. People were exploitative; that's human nature.

All actors should experience public failure.

If I'm at the University of Georgia and I can't inspire this room full of students, OK, fine. I'm not going to take it personally. Maybe a little bit, but I'll be all right.

Public downfalls are more painful and humiliating than private ones.

What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. I didn't really know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down. I was a very public failure.

In front of 40,000 people, you don't really want to drop a catch or misfield. It's part and parcel of the game.

The greatest success goes to the person who is not afraid to fail in front of even the largest audience.

Like everyone else, I can barely take the waves of embarrassment that come with watching someone do something so badly. Roseanne Barr singing the national anthem, Sofia Coppola acting in 'The Godfather: Part III,' Sarah Palin talking about Russia - they all create the same level of eyeball-squinching discomfort.