Wendy Williams Quotes

If there's one thing I'd say to anyone out there, is that if you're in this game, it's a rollercoaster. There's a lot of ups and downs.

Every TV show is a crapshoot, really. But every once in a while, a show gets anointed as 'the show.'

'Profit' in my mind is as good as television gets, and if that didn't make it, all bets are off on really predicting what's going to work and what's not.

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you get rained out.

You never know why something works or doesn't.

All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time.

Life's full of tricky snakes and ladders.

If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau.

I've learned through experience that you can't ever predict what's going to happen with any show. When I signed on to 'Ugly Betty,' I just prayed that I wouldn't get fired after the pilot, and four years later, I was still doing it.

This life of ours, this is a wonderful life. If you can get through life like this and get away with it, hey that's great. But it's very predictable. There's so many ways you can screw it up.

You write a hit the same way you write a flop.

If you're in the game long enough, you're going to be the toast of the town one day, and the next day you'll be toast.

I know the nature of comedy, and you never know what will happen with the next movie or whether people will find it funny.

I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck.

The payoffs in showbiz seemed as random as a slot machine.

Artists of all times are like the gamblers of Monte Carlo, and this blind lottery allows some to succeed and ruins others. In my opinion, neither the winners nor the losers are worth worrying about.

Whether I fall on my feet or fall on my arse, I dunno. You've got to take those risks.

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.

In 1965, I was teaching a seminar on freedom when I told my students that the ultimate freedom lay in casting a dice to decide what to do. They were so shocked and fascinated that I knew I had to write the book.

In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing right. Show business. I owe it everything - it owes me nothing.

Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack.

Soccer is the most difficult business that we're in, because one day you're on top, and the next day you're very low.

You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.