Kenneth Cranham Quotes

I think the fun of following the movie box office and stocks is very similar to the fun of sports - all three combine passion and unpredictability.

Life is a big craps game. I've got to tell you, it's all been fun.

The long run may be too long.

Technology is like the ante in a poker game. It is the price you pay to play the game. But it doesn't mean you are going to win.

When people come to a race, part of it is the anticipation: 'What is he going to do?'

You never know what's going to happen in the draft. You just wait until your name gets called and then things happen.

He who awaits much can expect little.

Performances are always more interesting to me when something is at stake.

There is no gambling like politics.

I've been at this for a while, and to a very real extent, you look at cover art with the same sort of expectation you have for playing slot machines in Vegas. That is to say, you hope to break even and promise yourself not to flinch when all you get is the same sort of mix of fruit that you get in a cup of generic fruit cocktail.

You never know what you're going to get as a receiver.

Everything is sweetened by risk.

The time I had waited probably made the difference between success and failure.

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

My whole life has been about risk and reward.

The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win.

If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.

Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.

You can predict all you want, but everybody knows what predictions get you.

You can't bank on the outcome.

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

This land may be profitable to those that will adventure it.

You have to expect failure; not everything is going to work.

If we consider games of chance immoral, then every pursuit of human industry is immoral; for there is not a single one that is not subject to chance, not one wherein you do not risk a loss for the chance of some gain... In all these pursuits, you take some one thing against another which you hope to win... These, then, are games of chance. Yet so far from being immoral, they are indispensable to the existence of man, and every one has a natural right to choose for his pursuit such one of them as he thinks most likely to furnish him subsistence.

… there is little rhyme or reason to the going up or coming down of the [Stock] Market