Quotes About Uncertainty

Talking to my wife, we stare at each other, saying, 'How is this happening? Why is this happening? Why now?' It's nothing I ever aspired to.

Even with most finite planning, you never know what the final result will reveal itself to be until it's staring back at you.

Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

I learned playing poker that you never count your winnings because that's when you start to lose.

On Day One, a start-up is a faith-based initiative built on guesses.

Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything seems to go. When I started spending too long with the physio and the doctor, I knew it was time to call it a day. But I had no preparation for being retired and I didn't know what to do.

You have to understand that in this league, we are all one play removed from being the starter or from being the backup, in any game.

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we're also starting to be really brave.

I'm very confident in my own ability but I'm not guaranteed to get a starting spot.

One minute you're starting left fielder, hitting home runs; the next, it's career over. I was 20.

When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.

I don't feel secure at all. I don't know what actor would feel they've made it. I feel like I'm just starting.

I don't tend to do category fiction very well. One of my problems when I was starting off was that publishers were hesitant to handle my books because they were never sure what I was going to do next.

I'm single. I just moved to a new city. I'm sort of starting over. I'm in Los Angeles. I don't really know what my life is right now. It's not what I thought it'd be at 37, and I think a lot of people can relate to that.

When the league starts you know that anything can happen.

Everyone starts a film thinking that it would be a big hit. But sometimes it goes haywire.

After I've gone out with a man a few times, he starts to tell me how much he loves me. But how can I know if he really means it? How can I ever be sure?

For film and theater, you know how the story starts; you know how the story ends. With TV, you don't. It's literally like living real life in character.

There are too many ways that a startup gig can go sideways. If the startup won't agree to hefty severance, pass.

In the startup world, 'not working' is normal.

You can't predict the future, and you've got to go with your gut on these things, and I'm sure if you speak to a laundry list of CEOs and people who have gone through the startup process themselves, they'll say it's an endless hurdle race, and you are inevitably going to catch your legs on hurdles, and it's just how you roll with that.

I love working with really early stage startups where the outcome is still in doubt. Maybe they'll go on to greatness, or maybe they'll never get off the runway at all.

In technology startups, there's a lot of winging it.

As an actor there's no autonomy, unless you're prepared to risk the possibility of starving.