Quotes About Perfectionism

You don't want to disappoint, or feel like you're trying to recreate the magic of something.

I'm probably not going to develop to a final state as an artist. Like, become better and better, more and more refined. Become 'pure.' I don't think that's going to happen to me, because I don't really see that as something I want to explore.

I like my raps, but I'm never too happy with some of 'em because I feel like they could be better.

I have a hard time revising sentences, because I spend an inordinate amount of time on each sentence, and the sentence before it, and the sentence after it.

Believe me, when I finish shooting 'Mad Men,' there's a huge chunk of time where I have a really hard time leaving my house without fake lashes on. Which is a complex because I'm not very good at applying fake lashes.

I am harder on myself than anyone else could be.

I'm so hard on myself and a really harsh critic of my work.

Honestly, I hate watching myself on TV - I have always hated watching myself and listening to myself.

When I try to be perfect, it makes me not have fun.

I heat myself up over the fact that I am never going to be as good as I want to be.

I'm pretty rigorous about the drafts I turn in. I don't turn in something that's so ungodly they go, 'What the hell is this?'

I think for so long I've hidden. I think actually now I'm in the limelight, I don't want everyone who follows me to think I'm perfect.

I write a lyric, but when I reread it, I think it's awful and either hide it or crumple it up.

I have very high expectations of myself. I'm a very competitive person but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be and if that means that I'm eventually better than everyone else then so be it.

I have this unyielding desire to do high-quality work.

I have a lot of what you might call creative self-loathing - I have pretty high expectations, and they seem to consistently be higher than what I'm able to accomplish.

I am highly critical of myself. I am never satisfied with my work.

It's not good for me to see things while they're being edited. I can be highly critical, so I try to stay away.

I'm highly anxious, ambitious, and very hard on myself.

if you make waffles, throw out the first one.

I'm neurotic. I complain all the time. I'm a workaholic. And I'm never satisfied.

To me, the word 'workaholic' is a negative word.

I am a workaholic - my family will agree with that.

I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.