Joe Greene Quotes

Sometimes the space between knowing what to do and actually doing it is a very short walk. Other times it is an impossible expanse.

I myself was completely torn by the decision to start Teach For America. There was a voice in my head telling me not to do it - to take a more normal path. I did have one thing going for me, which was that I had been rejected from all the other jobs I'd applied to.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

I'm pathologically incapable of making decisions. Just ask my wife how long it took me to propose - on second thought, best not to bring it up.

There is a very good chance I could have been a screw-up for the rest of my life.

My feeling was that I simply didn't have the enthusiasm to do reinvention.

I was disappointed a little in Stevenson because I did think he couldn't make up his mind. It's the feeling I always had. Perhaps all of us have self-doubt, and we should have, and most of us do, but it doesn't show. It doesn't show as much as it did in Adlai; he seemed to do it in public.

The decision-making process was very difficult: is this how I want my career to start, with playing Jodie Dallas on this show?

The honest truth is - and I have felt this way forever - is my largest competitor is myself. Always. I am intimidated by my own hang-ups about acting more so than anything, any part, any director.

I'm the only person who stands in my way, whether I finish a song or if I'm, you know, struggling. So, I see myself as my own competitor.

My biggest enemy is typically me.

I think everyone goes through it in university, figuring out whether or not they're doing the right course. I guess I'm the same, but in music.

I hesitated for all the right reasons. And I accepted for all the wrong ones.

Well, I'd love to make a decision like that, but I'm not sure how I could change my life.

Ain't nobody messin' with you but you

I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.

Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?

Once again, I've been thwarted by the massive difference between my vision of the successful me and the me I'm currently stuck with.

The only reason I didn't kill myself after I read the reviews of my first book was because we have two rivers in New York and I couldn't decide which one to jumo into.

Am I a boy or a lady, I don't know which?

I feel most miserable When I can't step "step up to the plate" You know? People often say Regret from doing it is better than regret for not doing it

Am I walking toward something I should be running away from?

It didn't make you noble to step away from something that wasn't working, even if you thought you were the reason for the malfunction. Especially then. It just made you a quitter. Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot.

"Please... don't ask me to go with you, because if you do, I'll go. Please don't ask me to tell Frank about us, because I'll do that, too. Please don't ask me to give up my responsibilities or break up my family"... "I love you, and if you love me, too, then you just can't ask me to do these things. Because I don't trust myself enough to say no."