Wendy Kopp Quotes

I wasn't sure I wanted to be an actor.

To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.

There were times when I wondered if I was doing the right thing, studying when I could have been going to auditions.

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

I knew if I had gone to school - if I had gone to Juilliard and danced for four years - I would have spent every day wondering what would have happened if I had gone to Los Angeles instead.

Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them.

I think I'm nervous to sign on to any job.

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.

It took me a long time to even dare to envision myself as a writer. I was very uncertain and hesitant and afraid to pursue a creative life.

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 was having a dilemma whether I wanted to return to acting at all because I was coming from this sort of agency-less childhood career, and I'd never made the choice to go into acting.

Don't put one foot in your job and the other in your dream, Ed. Go ahead and quit, or resign yourself to this life. It's just too much of a temptation for fate to split you right up the middle before you've made up your mind which way to go.

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.

And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?

I don't know if I would do this if I had to start over again.

I didn't think I was an actor and fought it for a long time. Nobody paid for that but me.

The difficulty in life is the choice.

I don't know what I want to do. There are people who want me to do things. There's a possible book. There are lots of things to consider. I just have to figure out what I want to do. I'm not one to sit around and do nothing.

You aren't sure if you're making the right decision - about anything, ever.

The more you turn down things, the more difficult it becomes to feel that the next one will be right.

I was always told that music isn't a 'realistic' path to take, and like a normal human being, I doubted myself over and over because I was afraid of failure.

So many roads. So many detours. So many choices. So many mistakes.

I was in college that first semester, and I was like, 'Wow, this isn't who I am. This isn't what I want to do.' I was like, 'Oh God, I'm going to have to go out and make something of myself, and I have no clue what that is.'

I'm either going to have the career I want doing films, or I'll do something else - I'll be gone.