Quotes About Doubt

I love 'Bullets Over Broadway,' but I'm pretty sure Woody Allen hasn't killed somebody.

I don't know if you know you're funny, but you enjoy being funny. I know I'm funny because people tell me I am, but when I watch myself, it doesn't make me laugh. Does that make sense? Because I know the jokes, and to me, I feel like I'm pulling the wool over people's eyes. And there are probably people who do not enjoy what I do.

When people use the word 'science,' it's often a tell, like in poker, that you're bluffing.

I am suspicious of the idea of a new paradigm, to use that word, an entirely new structure of the economy.

I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible.

The word 'religion' is only a label. What lies behind that, the most important thing of all, is the word 'faith'. You either have faith, or you don't have faith, or you have degrees of faith - and if you have degrees of faith, then you become agnostic. You're kind of in-between, or you're on the fence.

Every word I write I suspect the next day.

The word 'belief' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it.

I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist - being an atheist seemed so rigid. But the more I became comfortable with the word, and the more I read, it started to stick.

I think every first-person narrator in a novel should be compromised. I prefer that word to 'unreliable.'

Every morning when I woke up, I would pray, 'I have to throw today, please let there be no pain.' Those were very gloomy days. Meanwhile, the atmosphere around me had become, 'Is he faking an injury?' 'Is it a mental problem?' Those words made it extremely difficult for me to stop and rest, and it really took a toll on me emotionally.

You have to work hard to get to the top of your game. I think every writer has doubts! I still do all the time.

You can find yourself doubting yourself. But that's when you need to keep faith and realise everything is going to be okay. You work hard in training and keep doing the things you're good at.

I had dreams, but I didn't have the sense that they would necessarily work out. They seemed very far-fetched.

There was a time when I thought, 'God, this whole football thing might not work out for me.'

In a way, I'm always trying to do something I'm not qualified to do. So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work out. That's my basic mindset.

I'd be on stage in Ireland performing for thousands of people and just not believing in what I'm doing at all. And it hurt, it hurt badly. I knew every day that I couldn't continue this way.

When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?

What we do not know, we often fear. What we do not understand, we fear. And what we fear becomes a threat.

For a person who is very much involved with the institution of religion but has lost the religious spirit, the 'religion' label is the real threat to liberty.

There should be no doubt why Israel, our best friend and greatest ally in the Middle East, has determined that Iran poses an existential threat.

Well, I think that you know, I threatened myself with quitting after every movie. But I think everybody does that, right?

We all have fundamental beliefs of one sort or another, and it is very threatening if somebody is saying they're wrong.

I used to get a lot of death threats. After a while I realized that no one's gonna do anything or they would've.