Quotes About Doubt

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

When I decided to come to Sacramento, all my friends thought I was crazy. They said they still have cows and sheep around Arco.

I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.

I remember people telling me that at 5 1/2 minutes long, 'Lightning Crashes' would never be a hit song.

It was just crazy anxiety, crazy, crazy, just how am I going to walk out on this court?

Creationists have often made me doubt evolution, but probably not in the way they think.

It's hard to know now who, if anyone, in the media has any credibility.

I was worried that acting would somehow ruin any credibility I had as a musician.

In 2007, people tried to belittle me a little bit and sort of take the credit away from me and my team and what we achieved.

I'm as crippled with doubt as the next actor.

Whatever faith you have, you have that crisis: what am I doing?

I'm a very tough critic of my guitar-playing. Sometimes I don't even want to do it anymore.

I was playing and having a lot of success, but I also felt a lot of criticism behind it. I didn't know why.

The Exorcist has been a very interesting cross to bear.

I thought it was possible that O.J. could have done something. It crossed my mind. I was thinking about the events of everything and going, Why did I hear that? I was going, No, it can't be, and just all that stuff was adding up.

Doubt is crucial, I think, in every character I have ever played.

I see myself as an avatar of curiosity and doubt.

For nobody is curious, who isn't malevolent.

It's a curse. I ask God to take this away from me all the time. I do not like being an artist.

Sometimes you feel like it's cursed when something takes so long to come out and you don't know if it's going to really come out.

I don't know if I am cut out to playing a bad character or not - I really should give it a shot. I would like to play the voice of a baddie, but that's really just a cop-out!

I'm an old cynic.

I can work with skeptics - cynics are a little bit harder because they already have their mind made up. There's nothing that I'm going to say that's going to change that.

Personally, I'm such a cynic.