Tom Segura Quotes

I do feel really determined, and that I have to pull myself together, but I don't really think like, my market has changed and my company has changed, and I'm going to make it BIG in America!

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.

I try getting in front of as many opportunities as possible, but in the late '90s, I had no idea that I'd end up being CFO of a technology company. I'd no idea what venture capital was.

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

With kiting, you have to land a trick, and in that instant you know whether you won or lost - I knew I could become the best in the world if I trained. But with acting, there are different variations; there's not a right or wrong way. It's so hard because it's so out of your hands. I have no idea what's going to happen!

The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it.

I always have looked for the best challenge, I guess, that I could take on. I haven't been producing my own work or anything like that, so I've taken the jobs that look most interesting that come my way.

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.

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

My career was a roller-coaster ride but I never stopped taking chances.

You never know who you will meet along life's journey. You have to be open to risks, but calculated risks, open to winning.

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know.

He who leaps for the sky may fall, it's true. But he may also fly.

I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with my life. I always wanted to pursue either music or comics, so when the opportunity came from comics publisher Fantagraphics for my brothers Jaime and Mario and I to make a comic book together, we jumped at the chance: "Let's just do it and see what happens." Really, we weren't sure where we were going to go with it. We thought our work was good enough to be out there, but we didn't know that the response was going to be pretty good, pretty quick.

Those who won't take a chance don't have a chance.

Success is a matter of luck. If you want proof, ask any failure.

If you take risks, you may fail; but if you don't take risks, you will surely fail

I guess show business is a lot like baseball: "Wait until next year!" You just never know. Some of the shittiest shows I've ever seen run forever, and some of the best things never get a chance.

I have no idea what I’m doing, and that’s kind of how I love it.

Everything involves a risk. No risk, no reward.

So much of life, so much of work, is luck.

Life's just a merry-go-round. Come on up. You might get a brass ring.

You got to risk it if you want the biscuit.

I am still not taking my "career" in music for granted. It is constantly surprising that it works. Generally my thinking about the future has this assumption of an impending apocalypse.

Usually, you get a script and you have the whole story. All the acts are there, for a play. You know what happens in the first, second and third acts, and you know how it starts, where you go and where it finishes. [With American Horror Story: Asylum], it's a whole new experience. I don't know where it's going, and I don't know what's going to happen next. It's been an interesting way to work. It's made me work in a much more fluid, braver way, just taking every chance that comes along.