A Quote by Theodore Bikel

You learn more from the flops than from the hits. — © Theodore Bikel
You learn more from the flops than from the hits.

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More than the hits, flops will have an impact on my career. In fact, flops helped me shape my career. They made me look at things from a different angle.
When I started my career, I gave four flops, and then four hits, two flops, two hits, and then three flops.
Hits, flops, and everything in between - I got to do a lot of different things as an actor, had a lot of good learning experiences. So I think I've done reasonably okay for myself, and God has given me more than what I've asked for.
Hits and flops are overrated.
So if radio flops, and MTV flops and everything flops, it doesn't matter, as long as we're still playing and kids are coming to our shows.
I've been part of the biggest hits and flops.
I always had a fair share of hits and flops.
Hits and flops will always be there for any actor.
Hits and flops are part and parcel of movie business.
I always say that you should remake flops, not hits.
There was a story that I was in a shoe shop and that I threw a pair of flip flops at the wall, shouting, 'I can't believe how overpriced these are!' I thought, 'Gosh, if I'm gonna take a big stand on something I would hope it would be for more than flip flops!'
I mean, you can't make anything without making mistakes, is the truth, and I'm very grateful for those misses that I've had in my career at home, because you learn so much more from them than you ever do from the hits. You learn that you really have to work hard, which I wasn't really doing at that time. You sort of think 'I've cracked it, I'm doing it.'And you start to think perhaps you're more of a dude than you really are.
Hits and flops happen in everyone's careers. Be it an actor or a filmmaker, you can't let that affect your conviction.
Usually I am not overexcited about hits or down in the dumps for flops. I maintain a degree of equilibrium.
You're only as good as your body of work, and everybody has issues, whether it's Steven Spielberg or Martin Scorsese. I'm not comparing myself to those guys, but you learn more from the misses than the hits.
I'm a Top 40 record guy. I remember the hits and don't remember the flops. Something in my brain blocks them out.
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