Quotes About Doubt

Reports you read in the paper, you never know how true they are.

I love the spiritual side of religion, but the church, for me, is a place where I feel very repressed.

How hard could it be? Is it really going to hurt? You get into that deep well of emotion if you are by yourself. Why am I here? What's the point of going on? If I can't do what I want to do, then what's the point?

When I'm scared of hurting myself, I start to overthink things and won't go for it.

I used to believe that hurting would make you more alive to the hurting of others. I used to believe in feeling bad because somebody else did. Now I'm not so sure of either.

Iraq is better without Saddam Hussein than with Saddam Hussein. Without a doubt.

Sometimes I say to myself, what are you doing in this absurd job? Why don't you go to Africa and help people? But I cannot help people, because I am a hypochondriac.

Idealist: a cynic in the making.

Too many times we just think about our ideas, and we let people convince us not to do it.

I think half the time I just assume I don't really know what I'm doing - you have to do that to a certain extent, but you don't have to think you're an idiot savant.

I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.

I didn't know if I could write. I was writing all these songs at home and was like, 'Maybe I can write?'

I don't think I have a very novelistic brain. I like to read, but I don't know if I could ever write a novel.

There are enough really good love songs and I don't even know if I could write one if I tried.

I feel like I had to prove myself a lot because people doubt you. If someone does doubt me it does ignite a bit of a fire.

'Belief' means something that you do not know. You want to assume and bring a certainty to something that you do not know. That means you are concretising your ignorance. There is no need to believe anything.

If you have doubt about a person's humility or smarts, don't ignore it. More often than not, there is something causing that doubt.

It's hard when you have a lot of naysayers to know when they might be right or when to ignore them and go with your gut and do something that may seem risky.

Ill give you a definite maybe.

We have an illusion of security, we don't have security.

Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.

I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.

I do sometimes play characters that are a bit ambiguous. You've got to be brave about that sort of stuff. I like the sense of people not feeling too secure, not immediately knowing what they have in front of them.

I immediately doubt things if I become satisfied with them. Being satisfied by something is a real danger for me. I hope I never lose that. That would be death.