Flop Quotes
Word Lists
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[On why she wouldn`t work with Orson Welles] "I can`t win working with Welles. If the picture`s a huge hit he`ll get the credit, and if it`s a flop, I`ll be blamed."
Carole Lombard
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[About working in the Broadway flop "Merlin"] "Doug Henning`s greatest magic trick was making the audience disappear".
Nathan Lane
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I think it`s a badge of honor to have a real flop on your resume - about The Avengers
Ralph Fiennes
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[after Clark Gable ended up with the role of Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind (1939)] "Gone with the Wind is going to be the biggest flop in history. I`m just glad it`ll be Clark Gable who`s falling on his face and not Gary Cooper."
Gary Cooper
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I`d rather share the glory of a hit than star by myself in a flop.
Kate Jackson
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Don`t remake a successful picture, because you`re liable to be the flop. Steve Martin and I made a much better picture of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988) than Marlon Brando and David Niven did. What I wouldn`t do anymore is play any guest shots. I`ve given...
Michael Caine
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[on being asked if he knew how big of a flop Newsies was] You say something bad about Newsies and you have an awful lot of people to answer to.
Christian Bale
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You write a hit the same way you write a flop.
Alan Lerner
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The do-it-yourself version of pensions is a flop, as many Americans have painfully learned.
William Greider
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Like all copycats, they flop. Maybe they (fans) sit on them and if they take them home they use them for dust rags.
Myron Cope
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It takes time and energy, and if I`m working, then I`d rather flop in front of the telly than put on a tiny dress and work out how to get myself to God knows where. I mean, lazy some would call it.
Daisy Donovan
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I thought to myself that with the raise he made, he looked like he had a pair of 8s, 9s or 10s, ... But I thought I`d try to take a flop and catch a king, queen or a couple spades, so I called.
Daniel Negreanu
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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.
Peter Gabriel
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I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
Michael Caine
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I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.
Michael Caine
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BK makes very few mistakes before the flop.
Daniel Negreanu
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Between the ages of 15 and 22, I had made only one very minor hit, so I expected everything to be a flop. I was utterly amazed that The Sound of Silence was a big hit.
Paul Simon
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The only thing that`s been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.
Joan Baez
