Mark Frost Quotes

There are times when everything seems to go right, and times when everything seems to go wrong.

Certainly there have been better actors than me who have had no careers. Why? I don't know.

Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.

I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Try to please everybody.

It's been up, down, and sideways for me, man. I could become a huge star, or I could get cancer tomorrow.

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

Success and failure are equally surprising.

Betting on the success of innovative technologies in the marketplace can carry all the uncertainty and risk that betting on the next card in the deck does at a blackjack table in Las Vegas. There is a factor of randomness that must be factored in, but precisely how to do so is anyone's guess.

Luck is not scalable. Luck is not a national strategy.

There's no trajectory to follow. Even if you were to say, 'OK, I'm going to model my ascent based on this other person's,' luck and timing play such a big part that it's really futile.

You can never assume that something is going to do well.

There are time when, in effect, you can do no wrong, and there are other periods of time when you can do no right, no matter what you do.

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

If you win, everyone asks what's your secret, when most of the time you did exactly the same in the ones you lost.

You can't pick and choose who's going to win or who's gonna mess up.

Sometimes you hit the ball on target and sometimes you don't.

Sometimes, things don't go your way. Sometimes, they do.

Even if you play well, you can lose, and vice versa.

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

If you want your kid in the business, ask them if that's what they want. Don't be weird about it. There's a lot of pressure out there. Your child may fail. A lot of it has to do with chance, and it may not work out the way you or your child expects. You have to understand that ahead of time.

Sometimes you make plays, sometimes you don't.

Sometimes there are the conditions for winning. Sometimes not.

Even if you play, you know, the best player in the world... you have a chance.

I think whenever I've thought something might go well, it hasn't, and when I've thought, 'Oh yeah, just chuck it out there,' that's when it kicks off, so now, I don't claim to understand anything.

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