Seth MacFarlane Quotes

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.

I guess if there weren't luck involved, I'd win 'em all.

Some you win some you lose.

You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category.

You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.

You win some, lose some, and wreck some.

You don't ever know with films. You just hope for the best, but sometimes it's a bit of a crapshoot.

The reality is that luck does play a part of it. It does. Ultimately it's a make or miss league.

I think you end up on the lucky side, or you don't.

With risk, sometimes you have tremendous success, sometimes not so much.

I know there are no guarantees of winning and the only thing we have is to work on chances. If you want guarantees buy a washing machine.

Sometimes you make plays, sometimes you don't.

There are games when you do well, and others that go differently.

In football, there are no guarantees.

You rarely win, but sometimes you do.

If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.

You never know why something works or doesn't.

So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.

You can measure opportunity with the same yardstick that measures the risk involved. They go together.

In certain businesses, I would say 10 failures to one success is a perfectly acceptable ratio. Because the failures die pretty quickly, they're not that expensive, and the successes can be really huge.

Entrepreneurs go through real problems and come up with real solutions. It's not fake. You can do all the right things and still lose. You can do all the wrong things and still will.

Sometimes you succeed and sometimes you don't.

Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost.

Sometimes one succeeds, sometimes one fails.