Quotes About Uncertainty

Every film is a crapshoot. It's a mystery when a movie comes together. I've never been able to figure it out. I don't know how I make my choices. The only thing you can do is know there's something about a character that you really want to experience.

There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.

The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.

The problem with acting is that there's really no control. You're at the behest of others.

When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate.

Since September 11, 2001, the real world has become too scary for a lot of people to be with - all the time.

In medical school, it's quite possible to get taught that you can diagnose everybody and treat everything. But then you get out in the real world and find that for most patients walking through your door, you have no idea what's causing their symptoms.

Sauber had a bad championship the year after they fired me and so if I had stayed it would have not been so good. Sometimes life does these things to you because it's the right thing. You think it's wrong, 'initially, but life proves different.

At the end of the day, none of us are the Oracle of Delphi, so we don't get everything right. It's always good to be able to listen and to take on what seems to be the right thing to do.

We all want to do the right thing for our children. We all don't know what that is and we all - you know, you won't know until the future.

I believe things have a way of working out, and if they don't work out, maybe it's not the right thing.

When you're winning, your confidence is through the roof, but when you're losing, that self-doubt is like, 'Am I doing the right thing?'

You want to know the secret of life? It is to breathe in and out. And the mystery of life? You never know when it is going to end.

With 'The Simpsons,' people didn't know what they were gonna see. They didn't have a clue.

I was on a show called '12 Miles of Bad Road' with Lily Tomlin - it was an incredible HBO show. We shot 6 episodes, previewed it before the finale of 'The Sopranos;' it was written up as a 'Great New Show on HBO,' and then the whole thing was canned. Gone. Disappeared. That's when I realized anything can happen in this business.

To me, what is important in the theater is that we don't want to make a conclusion. We don't want to make a statement, don't want to say what something is. We want to ask, 'What is it?'

When I entered college, I wasn't sure what I was going to do. My advisor happened to be from the theater department, and he encouraged me to take some classes there, which I did.

At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place.

I'm afraid to do theater now.

There's no real theatre without taking risks.

Theatre is a series of insurmountable obstacles on the road to imminent disaster.

What draws me to the theatre, and what appealed to me about Too Much Light, is that you have no idea what's going to happen. That's the most exciting part of theatre, it's never the same. If it were, it would be like watching a movie.

It's a whole different kind of anxiety. But the great thing about doing a theatre job is that once the ball starts rolling you just have to go with it, it's inexorable.

I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts.