Quotes About Perfection

Realize that everyone that you think is perfect feels like they're not good enough, too.

I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.

Of course, most people remember that I received the first perfect 10 in Olympic gymnastics competition.

Everything that I've done in my life is always I wanted to be the best in everything I do. I want to be the best husband, the best dad, the best receiver.

Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?

I can cook really complicated recipes, but it takes a real talent to do the perfect egg.

God only made one thing in this world that's perfect - and that's my boxing record.

Flawed Design' is a song on the record and it explores why people feel a need to present themselves maybe not necessarily as what they actually are. It seems like in society, a lot of people want to be or try to be perfect.

Once I finish something, if I don't feel that it's absolutely fabulous, there's no way I would ever let it be recorded, I wouldn't even present it to a producer.

Sometimes I hear records that are being recorded at the absolute highest quality, and I just don't like the sound of it.

Little things can make such a big difference during recording.

Even in 'The Red Shoes,' a film that nobody ever has complaints about, there are enormous continuity bumps, and it doesn't matter. You know why? Because you're being carried along by the power of the film.

The red carpet is very important. You have to be very careful to have the right person dressed in right way. For me, it has to be a perfect look.

I am happy with what I have done until now, but there are things I would like to improve. I would like to do more, there is always margin to grow and reduce mistakes, fix things to get things perfect.

Normally when I work with bands I'm trying to refine and improve what's already there.

There's always things you can refine and polish.

Once I've written a song, I sometimes refine them.

It's hard being a Barbie doll all the time.

This is my one beef with Hollywood: It's great for movie sales, but they've created this fiction for us that, when you have a hard thing in your life, it's going to get fixed, and then your life will be awesome! Forever!

The easier it looks on screen, the more hard work goes into making it so.

Though films need retakes, I have always hated them because they tend to become mechanical.

With my own stuff, I've always held to the belief that it should take as long as it takes until it feels right.

I look at myself like a show dog. I've got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

A perfect hero is about as boring as a perfect marriage.