Quotes About Uncertainty

Well I am afraid that I am going to die, because I have just put a down payment on a house.

I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'

My belief about acting in one foot on a banana peel and the other one in the grave.

I learned one of the very important lessons in life in the 9/11 attacks. It's good to have a plan for your future; it's even better to write your plan in pencil.

You don't take a job in acting at all expecting 25 years in and a pension.

My parents were both born in 1930. They grew up during the Depression. They wanted their children to have secure lives, to have a good salary and a pension plan. If I could've guaranteed that I'd be a best-selling writer, that would've been one thing, but nobody could say that. So I knew better than to say that was ambition.

I assume I must have a pension, but I don't know for sure. I have heard of ISAs, but I can't tell you if I have any.

The old economy with careers and benefits and pensions is gone. There are scary implications to that.

I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm not certain of whether it's true.

Listening to medical facts was not enough. People wanted one hundred percent guarantees.

There seems to be this perception that there was some seat waiting out there for me, that Greens were absolutely guaranteed to win - and there wasn't.

Revolutions and their aftermaths, of course, are always fluid and fickle times, and the outcome is often perched on a knife's edge.

Nothing goes perfectly, especially when you're opening a restaurant.

I had no idea what to expect when we did Ladies' Night. I didn't think it was going to get nominated for a Grammy. I didn't know that we would have to perform on the MTV Awards show.

I asked the question, 'Will I ever perform again?'

I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.

Players such as Scholes and Gerrard, Ryan Giggs and Jamie Carragher have consistently performed at the top level and played hundreds of games. It's fantastic, I'd love that. But you never know what's round the corner.

Performing with anthrax in the building is not nearly as difficult as performing in a home where you might get stabbed at night.

There's real drama in performing live. You never know how it's going to be.

I like the feeling of not knowing where to look when you are only performing for one person or watching someone practice. It creates this kind of a strange in-between, which can be mirrored in the feeling of making a painting.

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

I can give you a definite perhaps.

I thought the war would never end. And perhaps it never did, either.

Perhaps at a later point important developments will be traced back to September 11. But for now we do not know which of the many scenarios will actually hold in the future.