Jimmy O. Yang Quotes

I'm completely optimistic - I know the end is coming!

I've done a lot of shows that didn't do well. You have to go in with a 50-50 take on it. If it goes well, fantastic. Hope for the best and plan for the worst.

Everybody is looking for me to fail.

If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're happy it just stays out of jail.

Every time I pull somebody out of the bullpen, I believe he can do the job. I have to believe it. If he doesn't, hopefully he will do it the next time.

I think the world is always improving and always not improving. I think that both are simultaneously happening all the time.

I wish you well and I hope it will be a huge hit, because that would be very good for me. And if, God forbid, it's a terrible flop, well that would be very good for me.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

I feel like people are just waiting for me to fail, so I have to be careful what decisions I make in my career.

I don't take myself seriously. Others should take me seriously, I don't.

I'm not so naive as to think that everybody always succeeds, right? I mean, half of Shakespeare's stories are tragedies - right?

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

I've always swung the same way. The difference is when I swing and miss, people say, 'He's swinging for the fences.' But when I swing and make contact people say, 'That's a nice swing.' But there's no difference, it's the same swing.

I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.

If I didn't do well at Wimbledon maybe Chinese people will forget about me.

The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

My secret for success? I don't know what the hell success means.

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched.

You're only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure.

I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'

Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.

It really is impossible not to like him. His success was his failure.

That's true, you don't want to let anybody down and here are millions of people who've been waiting for their favorite characters to be brought to life and you don't want to disappoint.