Quotes About Perfectionism

You've got to kill your darlings.

Great software today is often preferable to perfect software tomorrow.

One of the biggest struggles of my life is my weight. My weight is always going up and down, and I'm always fighting that, and I think that no matter what I do, I'm never going to look good enough to everybody else.

If I think I weigh too much, I'll lose weight; if my hair looks stupid, I'll cut it. I guess I'm my harshest critic. I'm not easily satisfied.

I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.

I'm not a singer. I double-track my vocals. I'm just not secure in my voice. I can't do single-track - I sound weird.

If I've gone to get a takeaway, and I get chips... I like to match up the chips in length. That is actually quite weird. Obviously, if I've got chips, I pick them out in twos. That's a weird thing as well. You know, if they're not the same length, well, I go hunting for the same length in chips.

I suppose if you've never bitten your nails, there isn't any way to explain the habit. It's not enjoyable, really, but there is a certain satisfaction - pride in a job well done.

I regret something about every single one of my roles. I always, always have something to regret about them, because I just think I didn't do well enough with them.

If anything I was probably loved and praised too much as a child. I think that's why I can't accept any compliments.

Some scripts you feel like everything is precious.

Writers, directors often can get too precious with their words.

I'm controlling over anything I create. I'm very precious about it.

There's a certain kind of motion and pacing that our music has, and this just doesn't have that. We just kind of rushed to the conclusion of most of the songs. I just would've preferred to done them over.

Of course everybody is different, but if you're having a strong, healthy pregnancy, there's not a lot you can do to hurt it. That being said, we should do as right as we can by our children, but we just need to be a little more forgiving of ourselves and not so much perfectionists because it's hard enough as it is.

I'm so OCD about prep work and learning lines and stuff.

If I have to use a body double, it means I'm not well prepared to do what I have to do.

The problem is that right from the beginning, there was this whole pressure that I've had to make it big. I don't know if it's my fault or if someone else created this atmosphere around me, but it's been there.

Any of us directing at Pixar, whether it's our first time or not, feel a lot of pressure to not make a bad Pixar film.

I'm pretty hard on myself in general.

We actually have some pretty good songs. But if they come out too serious, then we have to scrap them.

I don't think I'm good enough to bring alive the character of my mother, even if it is on screen. Besides, my mother was a classical dancer, and I am very bad at it.

Writers who do crap work believe they have turned in spun gold and all their little darlings must be defended.

I can be a better defender. It's one of those things where I like to always find something wrong so I can get better.