Quotes About Doubt

I feel equal parts lucky and scared anytime I get a job.

I get a little scared sometimes. A lot of things scare me.

Acting scares me.

The whole thought of being a dad was scary to me.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

It's a scary life and sometimes you think you'll never work again.

I love music, and I once thought about doing a choral scholarship, but the people put me off.

I never saw myself going to college. Even when I was looking at different schools, I was like, this really isn't right.

I love the sci-fi world and the way it makes me start to question things.

Scientists are always skeptics.

You could have ten scientists in this room. You could ask them all: 'Who's religious?' About three to four will put their hands up.

People don't generally listen to scientists much.

I worry for Scottish football.

I can't watch most of my work. Once I come on screen, all I can think of is 'What am I doing with my hands?' or 'Why did I lean that way?' or 'What's that look on my face?' It's too difficult to not focus on evaluating my acting.

Writing a screenplay is an act of faith. First, that it's interesting enough that anyone would want to make it. Secondly, that anybody would want to watch it, let alone enjoy it.

It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism.

I always second-guess what I am doing.

Life is very short, and if you worry what people think of you, if you second-guess yourself, you're in trouble.

I'm totally secular, but I'm scared like hell of God.

He that's secure is not safe.

I've always had to work to feel reassured, to feel secure, and that's not nice because you don't know where you stand.

If I'm put in a situation where I am not really sure what's going to happen, it can be overwhelming. I get a bit anxious.

There was a castle called Doubting Castle, the owner whereof was Giant Despair.

Confidence is highly overrated when it comes to creating literature. A writer who is overly confident will not engage in the struggle to get it exactly right on the page - but rather, will assume that she's getting it right without the struggle.