Quotes About Uncertainty

It's a wonderful thing to go to work and have no idea what you're going to do.

I have a lot of optimism about new doctors because I think it's really clear that it's a lot of hard work and no guarantee of a lot of money.

I want to work with people that frighten me and excite me, and characters that I don't believe I'm the best person for the part but I'm still gonna try anyway. Those are my favorite roles.

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.

As for performing live, I just never imagined how it would work out; for good reason, because it doesn't just work out - not the way you think it will. It's a chance that you take.

Finding out the truth doesn't always work out for the best!

Lots of medications work for a month, or a year, and then stop working.

I've done a lot of movies, and you really never know. You do a movie and you think that it's great, and then you see it and it doesn't work.

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

That's in the nature of social change. So you can analyze what didn't work, but it's very hard to predict what will work.

Comedy is this weird thing. You have no idea why certain things work and other things don't work.

I'm fascinated by musicians who don't completely understand their territory; that's when you do your best work.

T.V.s weird because its both the greatest gig as an actor potentially because it can be all this work for all this time, but there are so many question marks at every stage of the process.

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

I know I'll work, but not when or where. I never know what to pack.

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 been out of work so many times in my life that relying too much on just one job is terrifying.

There's been a lot of times that I thought I'd never work again; I was really bummed out.

If you want to be an innovator, you have to take risks. And sometimes things work and sometimes they don't work.

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 think my work is influenced by the fact that we're living in dangerous times. If I could put it in a sentence, in fact, my work is about just that: living in dangerous times.

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.