Aaron Spelling Quotes

It's a crapshoot, publishing.

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

When you go into a show, you pray it's successful, but you just don't know what's going to happen.

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

I knew early on after the first couple episodes were fully scored and animated that we had a real quality show here. But I always questioned whether or not it would work.

You never know why something works or doesn't.

As an actor, I'm rather hit and miss; I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of it doesn't.

You can't always expect to work with a director who guarantees success.

Sometimes it works, sometimes it fails, but that's what we face when we're dealing with improvisation.

Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.

I know the nature of comedy, and you never know what will happen with the next movie or whether people will find it funny.

You make something, and you really have fun with it, and you try to put emotion in it, and at the end of the day, you have no idea how the tide is going to fall. You don't know if everyone's going to like it, if everyone's going to hate it, if it's going to be like you're a media darling, or all of a sudden you're a sellout. You have no idea.

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

You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason.

I've learned that you can never predict what will happen to a film. You can never predict if people will love it, if they'll hate it. It's an act of ego if you're hoping for everyone to love the film and tell you how great you are.

The margin between success and drama is fractional.

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

You always want to have a winning car, but there is no guarantee that it will be.

You have to expect failure; not everything is going to work.

I can guarantee 100% effort, but I cannot guarantee 100% results.

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

Success and failure go hand in hand.

I guess you can say I always liked to take chances. Sometimes it works out. Sometimes it doesn't.

The industry is such - there is no guarantee that a show would work only because it is airing.

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