Quotes About Perfectionism

My whole life, I've felt like I didn't quite measure up.

I didn't want to play these people any more songs and have them say that they weren't good enough. So my response was to just not be able to write anymore. I know that's not the healthiest of responses.

I edit as I write. I revise endlessly. I don't go forward until I know that what I've written is as good as I can make it.

When I write something, I constantly rewrite.

I try to do things in one take, but doubling rhythm parts is always difficult, especially if you want things to cut the way I want them to cut.

I felt like I had to be, you know, perfect, which is ridiculous. Nobody's perfect.

I have never been satisfied with a piece of work I have been actively involved in, and would never want to be.

I'm never satisfied with something that I do.

I'm never satisfied with the way I look.

I've never really been satisfied with a book. I always want it to be better.

When I look back, I think I could have done this scene or that better. I am not satisfied with my work at all. I think I could have done better. I am never satisfied.

I'm not satisfied with anything I do.

It's hard to get me to even say I played good. That's just in me. I'm just never satisfied. A lot of my friends get annoyed by it.

I have this problem where I'm never satisfied with what I do.

We only did probably two, three takes on every scene we did, at the most.

I'm quite hypercritical of myself. It's a very Scottish thing, always thinking that you've got to be that bit better than everyone else to be good enough.

I can't watch most of my work. Once I come on screen, all I can think of is 'What am I doing with my hands?' or 'Why did I lean that way?' or 'What's that look on my face?' It's too difficult to not focus on evaluating my acting.

We would say, OK, the B section isn't good enough, let's rewrite that,' until we felt the song was great.

I'm a difficult person, sometimes, to work with because I'm so intense about this stuff sometimes, and I get focused in ways that I think can be overwhelming for me and also the people I work with, where I'll get so about every little bug in the thing, every little line.

I revise obsessively. It's important to me to have a clean page.

To tell you the truth, I don't edit much at all. Most times, when I have finished the first draft, that's the book. Of course, I work on the page I am on until I am happy with it. I might even say that I try to state the landscape.

After writing a page, Hemingway would let it float to the ground. He never crumpled pages - he believed that if you crumpled them, you'd be insane in a year.

I'm very painful to deal with when I create a shoe.

I'm kind of an insecure artist. I hop from piece to piece. I always think my life depends on every painting. Every painting is my first painting.