Quotes About Doubt

Nobody's ever going to hire me to choreograph fights.

The minute you get cast, you worry they've made the most terrible mistake. There's a really awkward stage between being hired and doing the job when it doesn't feel real.

If I were FX, I wouldn't have hired me.

If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.

Watching the dailies and then watching the... episodes, it really hits you: 'Damn, I did that?' I must have been crazy to get into those situations.

Every time I am directing, I question why in God's name I'm doing it again. It's like hitting yourself in the forehead with a hammer.

Fear is such a huge thing that holds us back.

I think there is this huge hole in Shakespeare that you do not know why Macbeth is who he is.

I used to always go to church on holidays, but I don't go much any more.

I love my hometown, but 'Leave Fast' is the way I felt when I was 17, 18 - it's that fear that I'd never be able to do something else.

Getting to the point where I was ready to write a book has been about a 20-year journey of being, really honestly, too afraid to try - which I think is pretty common for people who are trying to write a large piece of fiction.

In all honesty, I should have given up this acting lark years ago.

I grew up in the Baptist church and, honey, they baptized me about 14 times. It never did take.

I always wanted to be an actor, but I was always fighting it. It never seemed that honorable to me, and I guess I was always afraid that I might fail.

It never seemed that honorable to me, and I guess I was always afraid that I might fail.

I didn't think Barca could go for me, I have no honors, I don't have a great CV.

I know people started suspecting whether I was a woman or a man. All the honour I earned - I lost.

I'm a hopeful cynic.

When you conceive the scene, you go, 'That is scary, right?' When you shoot it, a lot of times you're not quite sure. Hopefully what you can shoot is what your conception is.

If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.

I just don't get my hopes up. I don't expect too much from people in the league because you just never know what could happen.

I know that there are many people who are hoping that things don't go well for me.

Do you know, a horrible thing has happened to me. I have begun to doubt Tennyson.

A lot of people were saying, 'I think you will play good on grass,' and I'm like, 'There's no way. I hate grass. I'm horrible.'