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That's me: success and failure don't affect me.
I don't take success seriously. For me, failure is a constant.
Failure doesn't scare me. And neither success. I am equally detached to both.
Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.
You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.
Run toward the hardest problems. This approach has helped me to learn a tremendous amount from both success and failure.
What strikes me is that there's a very fine line between success and failure. Just one ingredient can make the difference.
I never feel that because of my presence a film will taste success. A film's success or failure does not totally depend on me.
Comedy was my sport. It taught me how to roll with the punches. Failure is the exact same as success when it comes to comedy because it just keeps coming. It never stops.
Someone once pulled me aside and said it was all right to succeed, and I realised that I knew what failure felt like, but I didn't know what success felt like. I've carried that with me ever since.
My part as an actor ends on the last working day. I think the success or failure only really matters to the producer or whoever it matters to. For me, when I finish the film, I'm done, and if I'm happy, that's that.
Directly after the show people might have responded better to it, but who really knows. It did what it did and while it seems like a failure to most but it was a success for me and has given me so many opportunities.
I feel that, irrespective of a hit or flop, there's always pressure on an actor. When you give a flop, there's a pressure to ensure that the next film works, and when you give a hit, you want to keep it going. So, the pressure of success and failure is always there, and that's what keeps me going.
I can't say I'm not grateful to have journalists writing about me as a genius. But I know it's not true. I'm not confused. I understand that success comes through a lot of failure and a lot of very embarrassing failure. People want to create the next Facebook, but they are too afraid to create the next Facemash.