Quotes About Uncertainty

I don't really know what my personality is anyway. I don't really have one.

I've been in Nigeria myself personally alone when elections have been going on and it was a bit ropey.

I write from the perspective of an early 20s kid who is trying to grasp an idea of what the hell is going on.

So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.

I have a perverse attraction to risk. Not physical risk but emotional, financial risk - anything than can't kill you immediately.

I personally don't think of myself as either an optimist or a pessimist.

I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came out.

I'm not a pessimist at all, but I'm not an optimist, either.

I'm a bit of a pessimist, oh yeah, and I always think the film I'm about to make is going to be a disaster.

I'm a pessimist.

I'm one of life's pessimists. I'm ready for everything to go wrong at any moment.

Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.

If everything always went perfectly, I would feel like, When is the ball going to drop? Because good things don't always last. Maybe I'm a pessimistic person. When something just seems too good, I can't believe it.

I always call myself either an optimistic pessimist or a pessimistic optimist - I'm not sure which way it goes.

I was petrified about 'I'm in You.' I couldn't wait to get it done to know whether it was good or not.

Being a twenty-something can be a difficult phase.

We all go through the phase where the work is slow and aren't sure if what we are doing will have returns in the future or if it'll reach people at all. You can't fight that.

You wouldn't believe how many philosophers are afraid of movement.

I wanted to go to grad school in philosophy... Nobody was like, 'You should!' You know, they were all like, 'you could?'

My personal philosophy is, you can be sure of nothing.

It's a phobia I have. I never assume I'm going to be able to write another album after I finish one.

I have an animal phobia, especially ones I don't know.

It means a lot to be in one place for my whole career. The minute I got drafted in Phoenix, I knew it was a place I was going to be for a long time. But we know in the sports world and life in general, you don't know where it takes you sometimes.

One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.