Quotes About Doubt

I consistently encounter people in academic settings and scientists and journalists who feel that you can't say that anyone is wrong in any deep sense about morality, or with regard to what they value in life. I think this doubt about the application of science and reason to questions of value is really quite dangerous.

Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.

I just wanted to see China with my own eyes. I wanted to see whether North Korea was the best country in the world or China was the best. I grew up believing that China was much worse than North Kore, because that's what the regime told us.

Regime is made up of people, so I do put faces to regimes and governments, so I feel that all human beings have the right to be given the benefit of the doubt, and they also have to be given the right to try to redeem themselves if they so wish.

I did a regional car commercial and an internet potato chip commercial. I was seriously thinking I needed to quit and get a serious job where I can feed myself and it doesn't kill my soul.

I regret any comments I have ever made which may have cast any doubt on the personal faith of our president, Mr. Obama.

I think one of the things I regret was not having more faith in myself early on.

I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.

I don't want to regret doing something that I don't believe in.

I don't go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems.

I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.

I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it.

Often during rehearsals, I catch myself thinking, 'God, this is hard. Why am I always choosing such difficult plays to put on?'

When I first started out, I found it really hard to be rejected all the time. You invest in a casting, you prepare and get excited about it, then when I fail and don't get it, it makes me question whether I should be a model.

Everyone fears rejection.

I definitely have had a couple of years where I've been working constantly, but it never goes away, that worry that you'll never work again. It's a funny job. It never gets easier. Rejection never gets easier.

I think most actors are insecure and scared of rejection.

My parents didn't want me to be an actor. They didn't think I could take the rejection, and I have to say they were probably right.

It's my nature to run from relationships, because I have never seen a good one.

I have been in relationships, and I felt that I was in love, but I don't know if love lasts forever.

Being in all of my relationships, I'm even more confused than I've ever been, I don't know if you ever really understand relationships.

When I told my parents that I wanted to be an actor, they were like, 'How can you be an actor? You have to go out and interact with people! You hardly talk to our relatives!'

Every time I do something or release something or announce a new project, there's always that fear that it won't go well.

If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn't catch me?