Michelle Visage Quotes

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

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

You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going to work or not until it's on the air.

You may have done 20 great shows in a row and come to one, and it doesn't work. You never presume anything.

You can predict all you want, but everybody knows what predictions get you.

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

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

Sometimes you make plays, sometimes you don't.

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

You can't always expect a certain result, but you can expect to do your best.

When you go to an audition, don't hang on to it because no matter how well you feel it went or how badly, you just never know what the outcome is going to be.

Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're happy it just stays out of jail.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

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.

I'm trying to avoid having regrets about missing opportunities. That would be the worst thing. Like having an audience waiting, and not working hard enough, and coming out with a record that disappointed them.

Success isn't supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There's no guarantee you're going to succeed. There's nothing set in stone.

It's a crapshoot, publishing.

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.

Getting that audience approval is always a question mark, and it's always that flag that flutters in front of you.

Every time you do a take on a movie, you're not sure if it's going to succeed. Even if you have a great cast, like we had, every scene you're kind of waiting for the release. 'Oh, yes; it happened. We got it!' There's always the possibility that it's just not going to work.

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.

Success and failure are equally surprising.