Quotes About Uncertainty

America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards.

If you decide that you're going to do only the things you know are going to work, you're going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.

Usually, I only get to work a few weeks on a movie, or I often don't make it to the end of the movie because I'm disposed of.

Things are rarely just crazy enough to work, but they're frequently just crazy enough to fail hilariously.

I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.

Fear is faith that it won't work.

Rash indeed is he who reckons on tomorrow, or happily on the days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.

I'm fortunate that I'm employed. And if you're in show business, of course, every night you go to bed and go, oh my god, tomorrow I'll never, ever work again.

Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself.

Some things are going to work, some aren't. But there's always something new going on, so it's fun to watch and see what's coming next.

It's hard to know at any stage whether a show is going to work or not. Every few years, a different trend comes along.

My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.

Are you outside or inside the work­? You don't really know.

I don't believe anyone ever suspects how completely unsure I am of my work and myself and what tortures of self-doubting the doubt of others has always given me.

As a painter today you have to work without that essential platform. But if one does not deceive oneself and accepts this lack of certainty, other things may come into play.

You have to have doubts. I have collaborators I work with. I listen and then I decide. That's how it works.

U2's best work has always been when we didn't know what we're doing.

Experimentalists never know when their work is finished.

Much of the excitement we get out of our work is that we don't really know what we are doing.

I always work out of uncertainty but when a painting's finished it becomes a fixed idea, apparently a final statement. In time though, uncertainty returns.. your thought process goes on.

As an actor, you always think that whatever job you have is going to be your last. In some way, shape or form, you think you're going to screw it up and you're never going to work again.

It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing Am I any good Will I ever work again' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in.

Among those people not graduating, there might be a Steve Jobs or Barack Obama. We'll never know.

The thing with Stephen King is that everyone dies, and everyone comes back to life. So you never know with his mind where things go. It's the same with Steven Spielberg, too.