Quotes About Self-criticism

I spend a lot of time loathing the sentences that I put down on the page. Once I'm past that phase, it doesn't really matter what the routine is (coffee shop, someone else's house, my dining room table), I'm pretty fast. I go back to the start of whatever I'm working on, every half hour or so, and revise my way back to where I left off. I have my headphones on, I'm checking email, I look at Twitter and Tumblr, and drink a lot of coffee. I need a lot of distraction to work.

But what's so great about being a perfectionist?... You do all this work, and then the stuff you've made just pisses you off.

After every movie, I always kick myself for the same things-didn't do enough, not enough variation, not enough interesting choices, too bland.

My opinions of which of my works are good are vastly different than other people's. There is one that I'm obsessed with but I swear... no one else has ever even commented on it. So I'm a bit shy to draw attention to it.

We Americans are hard on almost everything. We are hard on our vehicles, our marriages and our heroes. Mostly, however, we are hard on ourselves.

But most blacks are prevented from this self-examination and self-criticism, because they don't think for themselves as individuals first; they instead willingly accept the opinions they know they are supposed to have as racial victims. They embrace the attitudes cued to them by black politicians and racial professionals.

So I add frigid to the list. To that stupid mental inventory I try so hard not to keep. An increasingly large list of all my flaws. My inadequacies. My failures.

After I look at her I look at myself in the mirror, and yet again I resign myself to the fact that my face has always disappointed me. Every look in the mirror dismays me, that's the reason I tend to avoid them.

I would be far more critical than any reviewer could be of my own work. So I simply don't read them.

I've never been super confident about anything. The work is never as good as it could be.

I'm a pretty harsh critic when it comes to my own stuff or things that come from my work.

I sort of pride myself in my dissatisfaction with my work. I've always been concerned with buying the hype, and having that make your performances suffer.

I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts.

I don't know if it's good to be stuck at one place. I'm probably too close to home on that. Because that can happen-where I'm not the best judge of my own work.

I do my work as an actor, but another part of my work goes to the piece as a whole. I can be fairly detached looking at my work and be brutal on myself.

I criticize my own work pretty harshly.

I'm pretty hard on myself. Every now and again I'll go on my IMDB or update my resume and I'm like, "man, I've done a lot of work."

I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.

I'm not a huge fan of my work.

I'm so critical of my own work that it's difficult for me to disassociate myself and watch it as an audience.

I've been working, working, working, and you know, sometimes you look back at your work and you see that it just isn't any good.

I am always worried whether I am doing my best work.

I studied voice for about two years with an amazing coach, and I never rose above the level of mediocre.

I mean, sometimes I hate interviews because I always feel like I sound stupid.