Quotes About Uncertainty

I'm terrified of routine.

I'm always having a crisis of faith, with everything. People who are certain are terrifying to me. That's how religious wars get started.

Losing your job is terrifying, but being prepared makes it so much easier.

I'm terrified of improv. Improv in a show or in front of an audience sounds terrifying.

Being diagnosed with cancer is terrifying.

I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying.

The idea of having dreams that don't come true is really terrifying.

When I did 'Guffman,' it was terrifying. I didn't know what to say. I started talking, and it just came out.

The whole Brexit saga is, in my view, one big, terrifying leap in the dark.

Writers always have confidence issues - it comes with the territory. We never know where we fit in, or what the actual value of our work might be. So we hit lulls, or slogs. Throw in the idea that many creative people are somewhat manic-depressive, and it can get pretty dark at times.

Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.

And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.

I think about terrorism in terms of popcorn. You can't tell which kernels are popcorn and which are not, but you assume you'll always have some kernels that are going to pop.

We need to get ready for a world where terrorism will not ever fully go away.

When a terrorist attack comes, you will not necessarily know who did it. What you can know is that certain kinds of leaders will use that to suspend your rights.

They only have to be right one time, the terrorists do, and we have to be wrong one time.

I think I have made allowances for the kind of despair which would test my faith, but you cannot know in advance what disaster to those you love would be too much to bear faithfully, and like everyone's, my faith is weakly conditional in some ways. I hope, I pray not to lose it. My fingers are crossed. Also my heart.

Words can't describe how one would feel in that moment after doing a test for something you really want but in your heart you don't think you have a chance of getting.

If I knew I was positive, why would I have ever gone to PAW to take a test?

You just never know with movies how they'll be seen in a few years. You have no idea. Like, movies that were super popular when they came out have been forgotten. And other movies - and I put 'Sarah Marshall' in this - kind of weirdly stand the test of time a little bit.

You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world.

As always, testing can only give you ideas on where you are. And it can also mislead you.

To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.

I mean 2020 for me personally - and I think for a lot of people in not only our country but our world - it's testing us and there are so many different factors.