I have had unsuccessful films, but I learned a lot from those films. I give my failures as much importance as my success.
My grandfather was a Methodist preacher, and my father was an unsuccessful businessman. We didn't have status or wealth.
If you don't try your hardest, and you're unsuccessful, you always have that excuse.
The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.
To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.
The crushing, pitiful, and frequently just plain risible pathos of an unsuccessful actor/performer's life is well charted.
It's a myth that you'll know the box office result of any film. I don't think anybody can predict a film's fate accurately, otherwise nobody would make unsuccessful or flop films.
The best of Johnny Lever's films are 'Baazigar,' 'Kareeb' and 'Love Ke Liye Kuch Bhi Karega.' I just love his work in 'Baazigar,' where he plays a servant and tries to hammer a nail on a wall and is unsuccessful.
To pigeonhole a genre as being successful or unsuccessful is weird.
As a largely unsuccessful comedian, I've become someone that younger people sometimes find and ask for advice, which I'm happy to give, even though it makes me feel old.
