Rick Hoffman Quotes

You and I and everybody in show business and the entertainment industry fly by the seat of our pants. We don't know quite what is going to happen.

I never knew Artist was going to get this big. When I was making it, I put my all into it. But you never know what's going to happen with something you make.

Filmmaking, I often like to say, is like Russian roulette. You never know what you'll get. The only thing you can do is find solace in the fact that, irrespective of the film's response, you work hard to make the money you do.

I think filmmaking is a gamble anyway, right? You never know the results from the start.

I've been talking a lot about how music chooses you because you can pinpoint when you had the epiphany that, 'Wow, I really want to do this.' But there's no real rhyme or reason about choosing to be in this industry. It's one of those things where there is no real guarantee; there is no real rulebook to follow.

There are times when I'll send a manuscript to an editor, and I'll think it is the most likely project I've ever sent them. And they might call me the next morning and say they couldn't tolerate it. That happens so frequently that I've given up any expectation of knowing what anybody's going to like.

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.

There is no assurity that something will be a success because it is a remake or because it does/does not have a superstar.

Especially those first few years of my comic book career, I had no idea what was going to happen the next day.

Sometimes there are the conditions for winning. Sometimes not.

There was never an 'a-ha' moment when a spider bit me and I knew I could write songs. For that reason, I don't know if I'm always going to be able to. I want to write songs forever, but it's an elusive thing.

When you make a film, you never quite know what you're getting into.

The tension in pro ball comes from the realization that any game could be your last, that an injury could end your career. And in TV, you never know if or when your series will be canceled.

There are so many things that you have no control over: whether you play or not, whether you get traded or not, or whether you get waived or not.

You always kind of feel like you're rolling the dice as an actor.

You never know what could happen.

That's the great thing about filmmaking: Things happen you don't know are going to happen at the end.

Unfortunately, there are no guarentees in life.

Chance ... must be something more than the name we give to our ignorance.

Pilot season is always crazy because you audition for a million things, and really, in the end, it's not up to you.

If a piece of genius comes, it comes, and it if doesn't, it doesn't.

Of course one never knows in draft if it's going to turn out, even with my age and experience.

You can't win all the contests and then lose at one contest and say, 'Why am I not winning this contest as well?' It's random. So truthfully, again, do I wish it weren't me? Absolutely. I still can't make that logistic jump to thinking there's a reason why it shouldn't be me.

The first steps of a creative act are like groping in the dark: random and chaotic, feverish and fearful, a lot of busy-ness with no apparent or definable end in sight.

Sometimes, when you're writing sentence by sentence, you're not really sure what footprints you're going to fall into, or what ghosts might appear.