Quotes About Uncertainty

Just because something is three months away and seems far off, doesn't mean you will want to be there when the time comes.

People say to me, well "What's the character you really want to play?" And I go, I don't know.

I think it was in my second week that I auditioned for Battlestar. I was very "Oh gosh, I want to be in television, I want to be in something, but I don't know if I want to be in this."

Photographers and reporters are mostly after me. They want to know what I read and what I'm like and I don't really know myself, so how can I tell them?

Some days confidence shrinks to the size of a pea, and the backbone feels like a feather. We want to be somewhere else, and don't know where - want to be someone else and don't know who.

I know certain roles are important to me. I know that I really want to play them. I know I can do a good job. But I can never put into words why.

And I never ask what I'm doing the next day. I don't want to know what I'm doing tomorrow. It's much too overwhelming. So I just go day by day, without knowing.

Of course, everyone wants to be healthy. The amusing thing is no one's really sure how to do it.

On the whole, I don't want to think too much about why I write what I write. If I know what I'm doing ... I can't do it.

I don't know if I have the patience and I don't have a trainers license but I will help out. Whether I want to do that full time, I doubt it.

Frankly, I kind of want you to be haunted by the unansweredness of the question, because I think being haunted by such things is a valuable part of being a person.

Did I help you to a fate you didn't want?

If I had to be anything," he told her, "I'd probably be a socialist, but I don't want to be anything.

Now all of us in our thirties are the first generation that get to say, "I don't know how I feel about that system, I don't know if I want kids, I don't know if I want to get married."

If they'd said, "Do you want to be John Wesley Harding or Wesley Stace in 25 years' time?" I would have said Wesley Stace, but I wasn't to know.

At all crucial moments in our lives we want to speak without knowing what to say.

People want jobs, but nobody has a recipe for how to get them. And so they are trying different things.

Each new film is like a trial. Before I step in front of the camera, I do not know whether I am going to fall or whether I am going to fly - and that is exactly the way I want it to stay.

I'm about to graduate senior year and I don't know what I'm going to do. I don't want to lose the momentum with what I'm doing now as an actress.

I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to publish my book.

He didn't know what he wanted. He only knew what he didn't want.

After so many years it's embarrassing to admit that I don't honestly know how much I want to be directed.

I only wish I knew that you'd actually want to be with me when that time is over.

I don't know if I'm supposed to be holding on or letting go. I don't want to give up, but if there's nothing for me to hope for, then tell me.