Quotes About Uncertainty

Anytime I make a movie, I really have absolutely no idea how it's going to go over. I've had the whole range of different kinds of reactions.

In movies, you don't get reactions: Live, when you do a joke, you know in a second whether it's good or bad. But in a movie, since no one is allowed to laugh or do anything, when you're done with a scene, you're left asking, 'Was that funny?'

Also, I think there are huge reactions sometimes, which are also mysterious.

It is hard to have great confidence in predicting what market reactions to Fed decisions will be.

I create doubt in the reader's mind. That is what literature is for: to provoke, to raise doubts, to talk about things that are not obvious.

Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that... the reader is left with an echo of: 'How much of this was from me?'

I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.

Not to get political, but it seems like every day I read the paper, and you're reading about nuclear war and Russians taking over the country and Nazis again. It's like every once in a while, the world blinks for a second, and it goes, 'Darkseid is!' The world has changed, and it's changed in a 'Darkseid is' way.

I am not yet ready to be Tsar. I know nothing of the business of ruling.

I have no illusions of the future. Or maybe it's all illusion. I don't know. I've always been ready for it.

Explorers have to be ready to die lost.

Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.

He said there is 80 of us, ready to come down and the next thing I knew is that Jo Brown dashed in and said your family has already moved and you have to move, the boat is ready to take you out. I didn't have time to ask, even ask a question.

I enter the world called real as one enters a mist.

After I graduated high school and came out to do 'Buffy,' I was enrolled at my mom's university, and I was going to go get a real job. I never thought of acting and never really wanted to be an actor.

When you're making a pilot, what you're mostly thinking is, 'Please let this be a real job, please.'

I think part of that is to create an environment where it's like real life, where you don't really know what's going to happen to you in a certain scene.

In real life, you don't know what's going to happen to you, so why would your character know? It's liberating to play the emotion your character is feeling at the time and not know what's coming up. I like it.

I mean if you put all of your eggs in one basket, boy, and that thing blows up you've got a real problem.

We don't often talk about the quarter-life crisis, but it is a real thing.

When you are young you don't always realise how full of doubts everybody is.

When you immerse yourself in medicine you realise that hope is not absolute. It's not that simple.

Like all actors, after every job, I think, 'Well, that's the last one, and I'd better think about doing something else.' But I've been so very lucky, and I've managed to keep going for a long time. It's just the way the cookie crumbles, and it's crumbled pretty well for me. I appreciate it, and I realise how lucky I am.

When I was 12 or 13, I realised I was good, but I never knew how far I'd get.