Flop Quotes

The only thing that's been a worse flop than the organization of nonviolence has been the organization of violence. (Joan Baez)
You write a hit play the same way you write a flop. View quote
William Saroyan
The do-it-yourself version of pensions is a flop, as many Americans have painfully learned. View quote
William Greider
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating. View quote
O. Henry
Writing a good movie brings a writer about as much fame as steering a bicycle. It gets him, however, more jobs. If his movie is bad it will attract only critical tut-tut for him. The producer, director, and stars are the geniuses who get the hosannas when it's a hit. Theirs are also the heads that are mounted on spears when it's a flop. View quote
Ben Hecht
When you flop, that's just another message that you don't know how to play me. Stand up and take your medicine like a man. View quote
Shaquille O'Neal
I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop. View quote
Michael Caine
One of the best things that ever happened to me was Rocky Horror being a total flop in New York as a play. I mean, it was a disaster, and it was the night of the long knives as far as the critics were concerned. View quote
Tim Curry
Making a big commercial movie is hard when you think about how many of them flop. View quote
Beeban Kidron
If I flop, let 'em pan me. View quote
Knute Rockne
I'd rather share the glory of a hit than star by myself in a flop. (Kate Jackson)
If due to environment businesses flop then we don't look at religion involved in it right? We worry about environment; similarly we have to look at the rural economy. So country's problem is not Modi but a "stagnated perverted mindset". They want to take every issue to that one [communalised] corner. View quote
Narendra Modi
People were dealing with CGI for the first time, so I think we were really unsure as to whether it would be a huge success or a big flop. ... I thought the scripts were so good. It had a kind of domestic element which I'm not sure it ever had before. I think we were feeling quite confident about that. ... In terms of whether it had a place in the world when it aired, I think everyone was quite unsure. I didn't know until it aired and people really seemed to like it. View quote
Billie Piper
Ain't nobody expect Kanye to end up on top They expected that College Dropout to drop and then flop. View quote
Kanye West
Boccioni and I were swiftly persuaded that with this show in Paris we were staking our all; for a flop would have meant kissing our fine aspirations goodbye. This is why we decided to go to Paris, to see what the art situation there was like. View quote
Carlo Carrà
I couldn't give a damn, [he said]. Writing is where I succeeded. I was a flop in everything else. View quote
Khushwant Singh
I think that you get the mood of a song stronger if you get it right that way. On the other hand, you put some songs out live and they don't catch flight. They just flop. It is hard to tell until they are out there. View quote
Peter Gabriel
People still say to me, 'What was it like being in such a huge flop?' The amount of hatred and vitriol was surprising. View quote
Kate Beckinsale
Wild Wild West is a comedy dead zone. You stare in disbelief as scenes flop and die. The movie is all concept and no content; the elaborate special effects are like watching money burn on the screen. You know something has gone wrong when a story is about two heroes in the Old West, and the last shot is of a mechanical spider riding off into the sunset. View quote
Roger Ebert
Good films flop, atrocious films do well. Uncertainty is the only certainty in this business. View quote
Madhuri Dixit
An erection is a thought and the orgasm an act of the imagination. The male has to will his sexual authority before the woman who is a shadow of his mother and of all women. Failure and humiliation constantly wait in the wings. No woman has to prove herself a woman in the grim way a man has to prove himself a man. He must perform, or the show does not go on. Social convention is irrelevant. A flop is a flop. (Camille Paglia)
What they teach in these acting schools is incredible, hair-raising crap. The Actors Studio in America is supposed to be the worst. There the students learn how to be natural - that is, they flop around, pick their noses, scratch their balls. This bullshit is known as "method acting." How can you "teach" someone to be an actor? How can you teach someone how and what to feel and how to express it? How can someone teach me how to laugh or cry? How to be glad and how to be sad? What pain is, or despair or happiness? What poverty and hunger are? What hate and love are? What desire is, and fulfillment? No, I don't want to waste my time with these arrogant morons. View quote
Klaus Kinski
I blew out my flip flop, Stepped on a pop top, Cut my heel, had to cruise on back home. But there's booze in the blender, And soon it will render That frozen concoction that helps me hang on. View quote
Jimmy Buffett
The second half of the twentieth century is a complete flop. View quote
Isaac Bashevis Singer
It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough. View quote
Quentin Crisp