Quotes About Doubt

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to interest me more as I get older. I doubt it, but maybe. Romantic comedies tend to be, for me, an oxymoron.

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

I think these are terrible times to be anything in.

I'm a terrible vacillator; I can be sure of something one day and change my mind the next.

I'd have made a terrible nun.

I have a terrible reputation for being nervous.

I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.

Amongst my friends, I am known as the most cynical person they know - I'm incredibly cynical. I don't believe in God, I don't believe in the supernatural, I don't believe in anything! And I'm terribly cynical, and somehow or other, all three of my films and much of my television work has been rather sentimental, and 'heartwarming'.

I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous.

There's a great feeling of powerlessness in America. When I express ideas to people, they say, 'That's terrific, but do you think it really counts?'

When I was 11, I was terrified about the world.

You're terrified that nothing will ever give you the fulfillment that dancing has given you.

I was terrified of being a mum because I didn't think I'd ever be grown up enough.

I'm always so terrified that tomorrow no one will watch me anymore or care anymore. Every day, I say that I can't believe this is happening. It's so crazy. Because of that, it makes me work so hard every single day.

I'm always having a crisis of faith, with everything. People who are certain are terrifying to me. That's how religious wars get started.

I'm certainly afraid of not being able to write for some reason. I guess I've had spells of not necessarily writer's block, but something like that. I find that pretty terrifying.

Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion.

You can accuse me of being a terror suspect, but I can prove to you that I'm not.

Every writer knows that unless you were born gifted with either supreme confidence or outsize ego, handing in your work holds, in some cases, admitted terror. If that's too strong, at least fairly high anxiety.

Much of what we regard as truth in the war on terror is actually rather suspect.

What's real? What's not? That's what I do in my act, test how other people deal with reality.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

Words can't describe how one would feel in that moment after doing a test for something you really want but in your heart you don't think you have a chance of getting.