Quotes About Doubt

People don't think I can construct a sentence, let alone write a script.

'Boxers' was more time consuming simply because it was longer, but 'Saints' was definitely harder. I think it's just hard to talk about faith in general.

Going into my first Ryder Cup, my big fear was that I would contribute nothing to the team and that we'd lose.

Again, conventional Catholicism does not much appeal to me.

I have ended up with quite a conventional marriage and family. But I still hold on to my younger self who didn't know if that's what I wanted to do or not.

I'm not out to convince anybody of anything.

Sometimes whatever you say to players is not enough to convince them your choice is the right one.

It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting.

Everybody saying you can't do this, you can't do that. I don't know why. Guess if you listen to it, you can convince yourself of it.

When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them.

Society is now less convinced of the absolute accuracy of the criminal justice system.

I was forced to say, 'I will not censor the Internet.' But I was never convinced.

I think the moment you're convinced something's going to be good is the moment that it's not going to be.

I feel a bit scared at times as I feel if I am not convinced about the scene, the audiences won't be either, so I have to give my best.

When I came to Barca, I know some people doubted me. They weren't totally convinced. But, and I've said this before, that never really bothers me.

I don't know how convincing I'd be as a soul cat. I'm a scrawny British kid.

After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, briefly. I'd been a shipping clerk, I worked in a copy shop, I didn't think the acting was going to go on and on.

When I don't feel that I'm good enough, I put myself in a corner.

I didn't confess. I was interrogated. They acted like my answers were wrong. They told me I was wrong, that I didn't remember correctly, that I had to remember correctly. And if I didn't, I would never see my family.

It is hard to work with the nagging doubt that perhaps some foreign intelligence agency is reading all your correspondence, especially when you know they have done so in the past.

I went to school for clothing and textiles and thought this is what I was going to do. Then I started working in costumes and literally said, 'I don't know if I can take the actors.'

I just want people to question everything. Question what your congressman is doing, your city council. Question what really happened during the Civil War. What happened during 9/11.

I never felt bright enough. I never felt confident. I felt that kid coming out of the council estate, like I was never good enough.

To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.