I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring.

Well the idea is that failure is an inevitable partner on the road to success and if you're not willing to confront failure you can never find out how good you are.

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

So nevertheless what I'm saying is that what one is - one's parameters are constantly narrowed by one's success and my desire is to widen my field even if I risk failure.

As might be supposed my parents were quite poor but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life as indeed over anything.

One must never assume that a character is sympathetic because of either the actor playing them or the fact that they're a lead. I think that's a recipe for failure actually because if they become unsympathetic you lose your audience.

If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure you've been deprived.

Admitting failure is quite cleansing but never - pleasurable.

Even as far back as when I started acting at 14 I know I've never considered failure.

Even when you have doubts take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.

Enjoy failure and learn from it. You can never learn from success.

I realized that I was afraid to really really try something 100% because I had never reached true failure.

You'll never convince me there is a hopeless situation or there is any finality in any success or any failure.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept study advice and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.