Bill Clegg Quotes

It's funny because 'The Book of Mormon' is 'The Book of Mormon' now. When I was doing it at the very beginning, and I was a part of it for four years and always believed in it, I never really knew if it was going to be more than a convention for 'South Park' fans.

My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench.

I left for New York expecting to repeat my success, only to be turned down by almost every publisher in that city, till the Viking Press, my American publishers of a lifetime, thought of taking me on.

The comedy seeds were planted before the Marine seeds. The thought of comedy never happening was scary. When you have a plan, you never know what will happen.

I used to submit to anthologies and magazines when I was a student - but I knew I was never going to be picked up.

I've done a lot of movies, and you really never know. You do a movie and you think that it's great, and then you see it and it doesn't work.

I try not to want any one specific thing to happen because that's then bound to probably not happen. Particularly in Hollywood, I try not to set my hopes on anything.

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.

You're not always going to have a perfect day. You're not always going to have the day that you envision.

Whenever you're making something, you're hoping that it connects with somebody in some big way, but I'd have to be crazy to expect that.

I just never count on anything. You can't.

You try not to pay too much attention to the hype before the game, because you never know what's going to happen.

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

I just don't get my hopes up. I don't expect too much from people in the league because you just never know what could happen.

Things don't always work out as you want them to.

You always hope an audience will respond to something you've done, but there's no way of knowing whether or not they will.

Things are always different from what they might be.

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

The only dependable law of life - everything is always worse than you thought it was going to be.

I never expect anything. I am always amazed at why anybody goes to any movie or why anybody doesn't go to any movie. Any movie you make, you make it because you're hoping somebody wants to see it, but you never know.

One of the best lessons I've ever gotten in my life is to anticipate nothing because it's always worse in your head than it really is.

The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves.

Sometimes, you have no idea why something works and other times, you put so much work and effort into something and it just falls flat.

You just have to realize that no matter how delectable that meal looks, there's a chance that you might not get to eat it while it's hot.

Everything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it.