Quotes About Uncertainty

I usually feel like the role comes to you to sort of illuminate some piece of where you are in your life. I feel like I myself am a single woman and I'm childless - by choice - at this point, and I don't know what will happen.

We have an illusion of security, we don't have security.

I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.

All imaginable futures are not equally possible.

I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.

Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.

In my 20s and early 30s, I was very much a man lost at sea, with very little direction in life, and painfully immature.

My freshman year, I was such an immature kid and I didn't know what to expect, I didn't know what I wanted or what I could do or what my abilities were off the court.

We think we can control life by controlling our immediate circumstances. But we can't!

The problem is I don't know anything or anyone. I am so focused on the immediate picture in front of me.

I think one of the hardest things about 'Final Destination 2' is that nothing's immediate about it.

Doubts are like stains on a shirt. I like shirts with stains, because when I'm given a shirt that's too clean, one that's completely white, I immediately start having doubts.

I do sometimes play characters that are a bit ambiguous. You've got to be brave about that sort of stuff. I like the sense of people not feeling too secure, not immediately knowing what they have in front of them.

If you don't have religious fallibilism, you have immense problems.

I know that many Danes are worried about the future. Worried about jobs, about open borders. About whether we can find a balance in immigration policy.

As I think about the future, I'm back where most people live their lives. Which is, death is not imminent, and that's different.

When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn't know what it was.

We've created an impression that life is risk-free, and it's not.

I've never thought of myself in terms of an identity. I'm always baffled when I encounter someone who gives the impression about being confident about a particular defined identity.

When I moved to New York at 22, I didn't know what I wanted to do. I took an improv class, and the first scene I did, I felt like 'I want to do this for the rest of my life.' It was the first time I ever felt like that about anything. I tried to make a living off improv.

My life and career have been a big improvisation.

The nature of improvisation is you don't know what's going to happen.

Our lives are a sequence of things. When we're alive, they're continuing, just as my words now are an improvisation. So the idea of 30 years is actually quite nebulous. It's impossible to encapsulate it. All you can do is go: 'what next?'

What I love about jazz is the improvisation, the fact that you never know what's going to happen next.