Quotes About Perfectionism

As a dancer, it's hard because there's such a perfectionist quality that you really have to let go of while you're acting, because nobody wants to a watch a perfect person on screen.

I've always been that person: If it gets into my head, I've got to do it until I get it perfect - a perfectionist's attitude.

At age 12, I was on 'Guiding Light,' and I wanted to be accepted by these adults I was working with. I started with the Eat Right for Your Type diet. A friend who was a little older was doing it. I have a perfectionist personality, so I wanted to do the best job I could. I was not eating anything it said not to.

I'm such a perfectionist. I can be like, 'This has to be like this. And this, and this and this.' But then you realize a lot of things that you thought mattered, they really don't matter.

Artists that are perfectionists? We find it hard sometimes to be happy a lot.

I was a perfectionist in gymnastics.

Parenting is no sport for perfectionists.

I'm a perfectionist, and to actually finish something is good for me.

I'm a perfectionist, which is bad at times but very good at other times.

For me, it's life or death doing plays: there's this perfectionist thing about me that it has to be brilliant - anything less than that is a failure.

There's this idea that you can have it all, but in my opinion, you can't - not if you're a perfectionist.

We're always wanting to get better. I'm very much a perfectionist.

I'm a perfectionist. I want everything done right. When it's not done right, I'm not happy.

I work very hard at relationships. I've done the thing of being home. I worked all day and came home and did all the stuff at home that a woman is supposed to do, the cooking and the entertaining. I'm a perfectionist, and, besides, I loved all those things.

I'm a bit of a perfectionist, and I want to give 100 percent to everything.

I was into the music scene, but I was also a bit of a perfectionist and very hard on myself... very dark in that way.

I am a self-critical perfectionist.

Sometimes I get frustrated with my own self because I'm such a perfectionist.

I'm such a perfectionist. I want to do better and better.

I used to focus so much on winning. I used to be such a perfectionist.

I try to be a perfectionist.

I'm not a perfectionist. I don't have enough patience to go over the same details over and over trying to get it perfect.

I'm a perfectionist and I want everything to be amazing every single show.

I'm such a perfectionist that I see every mistake that I make.