“It's too easy to criticize a man when he's out of favour, and to make him shoulder the blame for everybody else's mistakes.”
“Sometimes it sucks, being good, because if you make a mistake then everybody makes a mistake and if something goes wrong it's your fault, it falls on your shoulders.”
“When blame inevitably arises, the most senior people in the room should repeat this mantra: if a mistake happens, shame on us for making it so easy to make that mistake.”
“That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.”
“It's easy to blame someone else for our failings...”
“I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model - because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I'm offstage, I'm just like everybody else.”