Quotes About Uncertainty

That's the scary part about TV, how you'll feel about it in six years.

I didn't know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to become a history professor.

I wasn't so sure about signing up for 'Law & Order.' I liked the show, but another TV series? I'll tell you, though, it's been great, and I had no idea how popular the show was.

The whole thing of doing a TV series, I find it very daunting not knowing where the story's going.

Movie stars are doing TV series, and former TV stars are doing guest shots. Everybody gets bumped down the line. That's affected everyone in the industry. I've been lucky; I've stayed busy. I'll cross my fingers until it's my turn to be sitting around, not working. I'm sure that'll happen, too.

Whenever we start a new TV series, there's also a lot of question marks, and part of that is finding who you are.

It is hard to be an actor on a TV show, because you don't know what's coming and you sort of find out very last minute sort of what's happening.

It's not a very secure industry. I've spoken to a couple of people recently who had a successful TV show and then found themselves absolutely skint and struggling to find a job.

Every TV show is a crapshoot, really. But every once in a while, a show gets anointed as 'the show.'

On a TV show, you don't know where the character is going.

With 'Guardians,' I knew way from the start what the plan was on this one. The harder thing for some actors is when you are doing a TV show like 'The Walking Dead' because you find out you're character is going to die a week before or even just a couple of days before.

If you're on a TV show, you never know what's going to happen week to week with your character.

In my business, you have so many things going at once - TV shows, projects, movies - and sometimes, things never actually come to fruition.

Mark Twain cannot be defined.

Not only don't I know who I am, but I'm very suspicious of people who do know who they are. I am sometimes ten or twelve people a day, and sometimes four or five people an hour!

There's an 'Everything must go!' emotional liquidation feel to the end of your twenties, isn't there? What will happen if we turn thirty and we're not 'ready?' You don't feel entirely settled in any aspect of your life, even if you are on paper.

My twenties were tumultuous at best... I think.

Because I think your twenties are really difficult, aren't they?

Being in your twenties and trying to figure out who you are and what you want to do in life - with or without cancer - is a scary endeavor on its own.

Doubt, it seems to me, is the central condition of a human being in the twentieth century.

And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.

I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.

Twenty-two is just such a random age. It's a little blah.

I graduated college valedictorian, got an M.A. from Columbia University in Spanish literature at the age of twenty-two, and still couldn't answer the question 'What do you want to do with your life?'