Jonathan Ames Quotes

Henry Fonda one time said that every time he had a job, he thought it was gonna' be the last one. And, if you got any sense, you gotta' think that because, you know when somebody's gonna do a dip, some of 'em go pretty far down.

You’re optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does.

I was also ready to believe, though, that whatever good things I had managed to set upright could topple at any second.

I never feel I'm standing on solid ground, and I do write with a certain kind of trembling fear.

I'm always afraid someone's going to tap me on the shoulder one day and say, 'Back to North London.'

I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability - the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.

When you're fearful, you stumble.

I'm usually convinced that what I'm working on is a total disaster.

I lost my confidence.

I'm probably the most pessimistic actor I know. I'm always sure I'll never work again.

I won't lie, I've had a lot of discouraging moments in the past years, moments I wasn't sure about things and doubted myself.

Self-doubt kills talent.

Sometimes I panic and think I can't really write.

No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.

It's just so fragile. The growing sense of 'Oh, God, what am I doing? Am I any good? Will I ever work again?' All those questions of self doubt, they do creep in.

What's my greatest fear? I don't know; I have lots of fears. Regret, I don't want to have any regrets; that makes me scared.

Uncertainty's not good for anybody.

But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.

I lived with uncertainty.

To write fiction is to think that you're doing it wrong - that your work habits are inhibiting you; that you've chosen the wrong subject; that you've chosen the right subject, but that someone else has, unbeknownst to you, already written exactly the book you're laboring over.

I am very self-doubting; it has come out of experience.

No one likes uncertainty.

There's so much uncertainty within certain players and the organization.

I never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary.

The hardest period in life is one’s twenties. It’s a shame because you’re your most gorgeous, and you’re physically in peak condition. But it’s actually when you’re most insecure and full of self-doubt. When you don’t know what’s going to happen, it’s frightening.