When I left the Lampoon, I went west to try that out, and discovered that I hated it.They were awful people turning out awful product .
No matter where you're going it's the wrong place.
I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money.
It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor.
Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke.
To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.
Every now and then you dig a dry hole.
I got canceled in the middle of making the pilot.
We weren't making money in the Yardbirds.
Sometimes you'd come up against a brick wall... or sometimes you go into a fill and you'd know halfway through it was going to be disastrous.
I've drawn some things that have fallen very flat.
In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.
It doesn't matter whether you're riding an elephant or a donkey if you're going in the wrong direction.
CompUSA was a bad decision. We stayed too much with CompUSA, and we stayed too short with Apple.
'Catch-22' was a huge failure, and it rubbed off on everybody connected to it. I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn't wildly enthusiastic about.
I thought 'The Well' was going to launch my career, but nothing happened.
Underfunded, underwhelmed, and out of their league from the git-go, my parents took to home ownership like horse thieves to a hanging judge.
You can crash on one set of rocks or the other set of rocks, and they crashed on the other set of rocks, which was probably being too little to be commercially viable.
My husband and I had the opportunity to write some stuff for other people. We both tried it. I think it lasted about two weeks, and we both felt ridiculous. It just didn't work for us.
I didn't get a lot of industry action after 'Fast Times.'
Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living.
We never got anything out of the recordings. I'm still as broke as I was when I was with the Mothers.
I didn't like the bar business.
I've several times had jobs that I thought were going to be my big break, and it didn't pan out.
I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and effort... rather than sending to Bohemia some ordinary works.
