Quotes About Self-criticism

I'm overcritical, insensitive, and pushy when it comes to me. With everybody else, I'm a great listener, and all I want is for them to be happy.

All the bad press I was getting puts you on a downer, so really, you come to a stage where you start hating yourself, in a way, because you're not in control.

I'll be really tough on myself. Someone will be like, 'Oh that's really cool' and I'll be like, 'Yeah, but there's this one flaw.'

I write my own songs, and I only see their flaws.

I don't think I look great. I only see flaws in myself on the small screen. I make an extra effort to look good.

When you're young you don't appreciate your youth and marvel in it like you should, you find endless flaws instead.

Why do we get so angry at ourselves when we eat foods we love? Do you think guys walk around going, 'I just ate a cheeseburger and I'm so mad at myself?'

I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.

Fortunately, I've never had to be too critical of my own work, because the world is critical enough.

As actors, you always have that moment thinking you've been absolutely terrible or a fraud.

I'm the kind of person who, if I can't get something right, I get quite frustrated with myself.

I get frustrated with myself very easily.

Everybody gets frustrated with themselves when they are not playing well because they feel like they are letting the team down.

You can finish the day's filming or the whole shoot or watch something months later and think you could have done it so much better. It's frustrating.

The willingness to be self-critical in England is much greater than the willingness to be self-critical in America.

Of course, I'm always my biggest critic. So I'll never be completely satisfied with my performance, win or lose, even if I come out with a knockout or submission; I'm still going to wish that I did some things differently.

I'm one of those actors who fall into the camp of never wanting to look at themselves on camera ever, thank you very much. I do not and will not, because I am my worst critic.

I thought I was okay in my first film, and then I was really, really bad in some films. I really cringe when I see some of my scenes. There's a scene in one film where a dog is biting me; the expressions I have made should be qualified as the most over-acted scene in the history of the cinema. The dog's expressions were more real than mine.

One of the most important things for me in terms of my working method is doubt. I get very insecure about my ideas. And I don't say 'insecure' in kind of a paranoid way. I mean just: 'Are they good enough?' 'Is this the right thing to do?' I really beat myself up over that.

Much self-condemnation is a cloak for arrogance. Those who think they overcome pride by condemning themselves could well ponder Spinoza's remark "One who despises himself is the nearest to a proud man.

He is now judging himself, harshly, by his captors' rules.

I wasn't good enough. I had a little talent but not enough. There is nothing more discouraging than having just a little talent.

Albertine was one of those who took on too much in order to remain perpetually dissatisfied with herself.

We are never satisfied with what we have done. We know that our best is never adequate. If I had to be satisfied with what I have written I'd still be on my first novel. But I wrote what was for me the best book I could write at that moment in time.