Quotes About Uncertainty

I try to be optimistic, but in this business it's so hard. The craziest stuff can happen.

I'm not optimistic.

When you're following people after their eviction, they often start out kind of optimistic, in a way - it's a really tough time, but it's also like a new start. Who knows where they might end up?

I am pessimistically optimistic.

I'm open to making any kind of music, or maybe making no music ever again. That's also an option, always. Who knows what'll happen.

I wasn't sure music was an option for me.

You just can't think of safe options always. You have to accept challenges head on.

There are no good options in the midst of a crisis.

People ask me what I would have done if it wasn't for basketball. I can never give a good story because I honestly don't know. I had no other options.

Many in the world would have us choose safer options - keep this player, instead of taking a gamble on a player whose name you don't know. But when that player becomes Robert Covington, people are excited. We've chosen that sort of thing very often.

You can't have an organised life and a five year plan and be an actor.

Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.

You're on Facebook, and you're supposed to know your sexual orientation at 13... Nobody really knows what's going on at that time, and people seem to... know stuff, or they have to act like they do, and they make decisions before they really need to.

I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur.

When I moved to Orlando, it was my first time moving from Cleveland. You never know what to expect. But to be able to go and work with Shawn Michaels and learn from him - it's just mind-blowing.

One and all, the orthodox creeds are crumbling into ruins everywhere.

There is no worse situation to be in than Oscar night. Not knowing whether you've won is completely draining.

People think you know beforehand when you win an Oscar - I can assure you you don't.

I keep all irons in the fire because, 'You never know.' It's because I have to, and otherwise, life gets boring.

When we can't determine what is art - when you get to that point where we're not sure, that's the greatest likelihood that we're actually experiencing something great. But I think that's what the art world is most afraid of, because you lose that security. Then we don't know how to assign evaluation, whether it's cultural or otherwise.

You just look at the world, and you see things unraveling, and you say, 'I wonder what we ought to do?' Things are seldom crystal clear.

Chance determines our lives in important ways.

I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.

We go through our lives in a continual dance of being filled with something that needs an answer, and then going out and finding that answer... only to find out that our answer wasn't quite the answer.