Quotes About Doubt

I'm a pessimist by nature. I don't think things are ever going to work out, I'm not particularly ambitious.

Were you already here?" he asked. "Yeah." "Didn't you just bring her home from work two hours ago?" "Yeah." Tripp chuckled and shook his head. "Did you even leave?" "No.

I can kid people, including myself, into believing that something on the page will work. But when you film it, you just think, "Oh ...".

I didn't make 'The Sixth Sense' because I thought the ending wouldn't work!

My job in my work is not to acquire power; it's to question power.

I had an idea and I wanted just to make it work. And I am never, ever secure on the set that what I am doing is going to translate to the screen. It never changes.

Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they've wondered if they were going to work again.

I still doubt it will work." "You'd doubt the sun's rising if you weren't proven wrong each day," Raoden said with a smile.

I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.

I'd tried enough to know that anything long term wasn't going to work.

I think if I've worked anything through with screenwriting it's that I'm not going to be able to work anything through.

I've discovered that my best work comes from the uncomfortable but fruitful feeling of not having a clue – of being worried, secretly afraid, even convinced that I'm on the wrong track.

Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.

My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.

I'm always doubting my work, even when people are kind enough to say good things. I still have a hard time believing I've written some books, let alone that they've actually done pretty well.

We as actors doubt up until the last minute that we can be this person. So everything matters, the more work you do, you get in touch with who the character is.

How could two people who were so in love not end up happily ever after? It had to work. Didn't it?

Most of the films I've done haven't done particularly well. I'm surprised I'm continuing to work.

Most times with vanity projects, publishers don't believe in the work; they just believe in the name.

The challenge is always as a writer, is this going to work, because it's a very intimate process, and I tend to be very introverted and insular, and when I write, it's in my head.

I don't believe in God now. I can still work up an envy for someone who has a faith. I can see how that could be a deeply soothing experience.

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 think the one thing that's changed over time is that I've come to realise, as a fiction writer, the fact that I don't think it will work out, doesn't mean that it actually won't.

The heart [of my work], the quintessential, remains the questioning of photographic truth. Be careful, be critical, doubt, and filter the information you receive.