Quotes About Uncertainty

What I find really attractive is something that's going to be a little dangerous. Something that might get me into trouble; you know, you turn up in London and you've just rewritten Dickens. And, of course, then you think, 'What have I done?'

Since I was shot, everything is such a dream to me. Like I don't know whether I'm alive or whether I died. I wasn't afraid before. And having been dead once, I shouldn't feel fear. But I am afraid. I don't understand why.

One is born, one lives, one dies. What death is, I don't know.

We don't like our lives being monitored, so when someone dies alone, perhaps there are always answers that remain out of reach.

There is no gainsaying that Lurch has put me where I am today. Lurch bought the house I live in. But what's going to happen to a guy like me when it's over? What happens when the show dies in maybe five years? Do I die too? No! I want to go on with other things.

For a long time, they thought I had lupus, then they thought I had something else. Finally, when I couldn't walk, they did a spinal tap and conclusively diagnosed me with M.S.

I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to North London.'

I can never go to a clairvoyant. I'd be too afraid of what they might tap into.

I don't think we've ever known what the hell's going on when we do Tap shows. It's possible the audience are effectively getting to see more of the movie when we play. You know, they know the songs, so anything we do onstage, whether we're meaning to or not, is an extension of the film. Other than that, I wouldn't understand what's going on.

You put yourself on tape as an actor a lot - and you send them off, they go out into the ether, and you have no idea what's going to come back, or when.

When you are too specific on a target, it can drain you. Ask me where I will be when I am 60, and I will have no answer to give.

The old player in me can certainly sympathise with how your targets change because you simply do not know what is around the corner.

Even though I'm super into tarot and astrology, I don't believe in knowing too much about the future.

You don't go to tarot readers or psychics when everything's going well. It's always evidence of rock-bottom.

I think a reason why actors get reputations for being crazy and neurotic is because your life task is constantly in flux.

I was paralyzed with nerves on 'Taste of Honey' and never quite knew what was going on.

This taught me a lesson, but I'm not quite sure what it is.

Girls and guys are like a bus stop - they come and go. You never know, like, who's going to be the right one, and what I've been taught is you really gotta figure out who you are first before you can really give yourself to someone else.

We have lost certainty and predictability in the regulatory and tax climate in America, and this is why we're recovering so slowly.

Nothing in this life is certain aside from death, taxes and English literature graduates writing in the Guardian and spoiling your enjoyment of things you had previously thought were fine.

The practice of passing bills to find out what is in them represents a Forrest Gump-box of chocolates approach to government in which the taxpayers never know what they are going to get.

Be kind to each other. You never know who's going to become the CEO of what. You never know who is going to become Taylor Swift. You never know.

I try not to look any further ahead than the next cup of tea. You never know if that cuppa will come or not, do you?

What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you're not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you.