Quotes About Uncertainty

As good Archbishop Loménie was wont to say: 'There are so many accidents; and it needs but one to save us.'—How many to destroy us?

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.

You never know how your kids are going to turn out. You can raise them with all the best intentions, and then they're own people, and they have their own inner conflicts. You just hope you've given them some good stuff to navigate with.

I think I'd be depressed if everything were nearly all known, but I don't feel any danger of that happening.

We're going to take risks. What has always been will not necessarily always be forever.

I think life doesn't necessarily have an endgame.

But you're not necessarily ever going to be handed a script where you can say: it's all done and perfect.

It's never nice looking over your shoulder and needing other results but sometimes that happens in football. It's a lot better to know your future is in your own hands.

Everybody is grappling with their own moral compass, and that needle, like any needle, can't just stick. It's always floating a little bit, and depending on where you're standing, it's hard to read.

I'm not a negative person, but every role I go for I don't think I'll get.

It's either feast or famine, and that's the way it's been for as long as I can remember. I've spent my whole career thinking I'll never work again. Every actor lives with that insecurity. You just have to negotiate the rapids as they come.

With negotiations, you never know what's going to happen.

Doctors are not fortune tellers, and neither am I. Having lived with disability since birth does not afford me immunity from illness.

The longer the game went on, you got the feeling that neither side really wanted to lose.

In TV, you don't know everything. The writers only give you scripts before you shoot the episodes. They keep you on your nerve.

Be very nervous of the shaky hands.

With every film that you do, you're always so nervous. You feel exposed because you know people will see this eventually. You sort of have to put all that out of your head. What will be will be. But it's nerve wracking.

To this day, I get very nervous coming back into my own country.

I was really nervous. Even when I left the audition I was nervous.

I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.

I get scared to death every time I have to play. I always get nervous because you never know what to expect. The crowd could be awful, or it could be amazing. You just never know what you're going to get until you get out there and do it. I just do my best and have fun.

I think I'm a nervous laugher. Like, when you're in a situation that you don't know what's going on, you go to laughter more than anything.

I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.

I think it's the nervousness and the worry that it won't last forever that keeps us working so hard.