Quotes About Doubt

Confidence is a fragile thing.

I just got fed up with the Protestantism that I'd been brought up with being rubbed out, disregarded. There's an awful lot of frailty and doubt about it, which I understand and share, but there are certain things you just have to acknowledge.

As actors, you always have that moment thinking you've been absolutely terrible or a fraud.

Most artists think they're frauds anyway.

Not having gone to drama school, I always feel like a bit of a fraud, but so far it looks as though I've not been found out.

I always felt like a fraud.

I've had people say so much, that I'm a fraud. I've had people email me and say, 'You're going to die.'

I'm not sure anyone ever feels they belong in showbusiness. I think everyone feels a bit of a fraud, that one day they'll get rumbled.

I cannot and will not play something if I still have questions. I feel like I am being fraudulent.

But, I'm kind of a control freak. I get really freaked out if I don't know what's going on and what's going to happen.

I feel that Indian women are too frightened. They all say, 'I can't do this, I can't do that.' Worse, their families don't support them.

Do I believe the Earth is shaped like a Frisbee? I believe it is. Do I know for sure? No. That's why I want to go up in space.

I always thought I was good. That's why it was so frustrating when other people didn't agree.

Everybody told us we would never make it. Even friends would say to me, 'Okay this band thing is cool, but seriously, what are you really going to do?' I can't think of anyone who believed in us, and that was fuel for the fire, because the more anybody said I wouldn't do it, the more I was like, 'No, I'm going to do it.'

When we were making The Fugitive, we all thought it was going to bomb.

Business can talk itself into a blue funk.

I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

God is a book I can no longer read.

Old Campion had once said he believed - he positively believed, with shudders - that Christopher desired to live in the spirit of Christ. That had seemed horrible to the general, but Mark did not see that it was horrible, per se ... He doubted, however, whether Christ would have refused to manage Groby had it been his job. Christ was sort of an Englishman and Englishmen did not as rule refuse their jobs... They had not used to; now no doubt they did.

there are times when to a poor priest the rule of the Church as regards marriage seems bitter hard and he almost doubts her inscrutable wisdom.

I have lost the consolation of faith/ though not the ambition to worship

What bothers me, I told you in the first weeks after we met, is that I never know when you think I'm interesting.

At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done—then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.

Are you sure the child was left at a school in Paris? Are you sure it was Paris?" "My dear fellow," broke forth Carrisford, with restless bitterness, "I am sure of nothing.