Quotes About Uncertainty

I came into this league when I was 20, and I didn't know if I was going to make it.

I didn't know if I was going to go into acting more, or kind of lean into TV writing or comedy.

I wish people were realer in talking about how leaps of faith don't have to be taken without at least looking down first.

When I left, I had learnt nothing. I took nothing with me. At least, that's what I thought then.

Everybody that's an actor leaves it for a while 'cause they ain't got a job.

Once you know how completely and suddenly the earth can open up at your feet and the worst can happen, it also, paradoxically, leaves you more afraid of everything else.

Funnily enough, when I was leaving school and they asked you what you were going to do, and I just liked acting, that's never what I would say. I would always say I would go into business, even though I didn't really know what was meant by that.

In Lebanon, it's never over for anyone. You cannot write off anyone or anything in this country.

I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.

Nobody can know what their legacy is going to be, you know?

Lenin, the greatest theorist of them all, did not know what he was going to do after he had got the power.

It's not an easy thing to be let go.

I work with so many levels of British law enforcement, I never know who is working for whom.

My gravestone will say, 'Here Lies Damon Lindelof - Or Does He?'

Life is a big craps game. I've got to tell you, it's all been fun.

Life is a roller-coaster, so you never know what's gonna happen.

I've always liked the effect of having somebody in there who hadn't the faintest idea what was going on.

It's a kind of limbo, knowing what you want but not being quite sure how to go about doing it.

You get your time in the limelight but you don't know how long it's going to last. It's great, but you have to put up with a lot.

Acting is a strange job because your control is very limited.

It was a very circuitous path. It was not very linear - I floundered about for many years.

Sometimes, when you get into a record, it's like writing a book, and you get so far inside the story you can't tell anymore if it's gonna be good to an outside listener.

Every movie is like a little company, and any little thing can make it not work.

I didn't know what 'Every Little Thing' was going to do.