Success Rate Quotes

Ninety per cent of my movies were hits.

Acting is a tough business, and the percentage of people who make it is very low - it's about 1 percent.

I couldn't tell you the ratio, but probably for every job you see me do, there would be 20 rejections.

I do not deny that we may make mistakes of procedure as we carry out the policy. I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average, not only for myself but for the team.

Experience tells us that whereas that degree of recognition can happen for one or two actors, for the vast majority it doesn't, so what matters is to try and be a better actor.

I figure lots of predictions is best. People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the rest.

The reason why I play around with the word legend is because this is my 7th CD and a lot of artists don't even make it that far. Many artists don't even pass three or four.

I have a relatively good track record.

If I'm not going to play a lot I'd like to have a chance to win every time I jump between the pipes.

Hollywood is a great place if you're an orange.

Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you're glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things.

It's really important that young people realise very rarely do you become an overnight success.

I would rather do two things really, really, really well than do 16 things and have 14 of them fail.

... We probably funded a rate of something like one out of ten solo teams.

Do you want to succeed? Then, double you rate of failure. Success lies on the far side of failure.

Prosecutors are assessed by their win-loss records, not by whether they have furthered the cause of justice.

If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.

My debut feature, 'The Baby-Sitters Club,' got good reviews and made good money for what it cost. But it took me six years to get to direct my second feature. I think a guy would have had another movie out the same year.

I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-four per cent of the time.

Failure can teach you something, and as long as you're moving very, very quickly, you're going to start piling up the wins. Speed gives you the luxury to be able to fail.

A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.

The Law of Probabilities: the more things you try, the more likely one of them will work.

While we talk about successes, I think it's also important to talk about all the failures. Like, for every Netflix special, there's things that don't work.

Television is ultimately a business of failure. You try a lot of things, and most of it fails.

You want every movie to be a hit. But every painting isn’t a masterpiece.