Keerthy Suresh Quotes

If I believe that I became the best quarterback that I could possibly be, the best football player that I could possibly be... That's how I'm going to measure my career as a success or not.

I think everybody has a moment in their career where you have to test whether it was right or wrong. We've all been there. I've looked back at performances of my own, where only you know if it is something you want to repeat. As long as you know when it's not right that you don't repeat it all the time.

I just want to take the time to think about what I've achieved in my career so far, where I need to go, and what I need to do to get better as a player.

I don't care about the image I have. What matters to me is that with every film, I am growing more and more as an actor, pushing and challenging myself.

Of course I am doing a good job, but you can always improve, and I just leave it up to people outside, around me or whatever, to judge on that.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

I know that I am my worst critic. I know that if I can walk away from the set at the end of the day and feel that I did the best job I could and feel proud, that's what will satisfy me.

An artist who opposes himself still has the best chances to reach some result.

My goals for myself have changed as my career has evolved and as I've grown as a writer.

I never judge myself according to the expectations of others. I judge myself by the jobs I've been given over the years and by the extent to which I succeeded in those jobs.

I'm very competitive with myself. I'm a scheduler.

I always look at myself as kind of a work in progress. I hope that's not always the case. But for me, every film is a learning experience.

You've got to get better every single year, it doesn't matter.

I always consider myself as good as my last film. I tend to analyse my work very critically.

Eventually, I'm going to be judged purely on my own merits.

At the end of the day, I write down an 'L' or a 'W,' whether or not the day was a 'Loss' or if it was a 'Win.' It really bothers you to have to write down an 'L.' An 'L' looks like a day I ate a lot of junk food, or I didn't work out when I was supposed to or train when I was supposed to train, or if I felt that I had a bad performance in the ring.

I feel like interviews are the only time I actually analyze my own work.

For a long time, I played for me, for my career.

I've always put pressure on myself to perform well.

I've had a lot of starts and stops as far as my career is concerned, but I think what I am able to do is to put things into perspective.

Being critical of yourself is important sometimes: not during the season, because you need to be confident, but during the winter, it's always a good time to look at yourself in the mirror and say, 'This, this, and this I need to improve.' That's how it is.

I wish I had known that that process of figuring out what you're good at, what you want to do, and where you want to have an impact is not a one-time exercise, but an ongoing one. Instead, I bought into success being an endpoint rather than a constant process.

I am constantly analysing my performances and I tend to focus more on things I haven't done as well as I'd have liked.

The only thing I can expect from myself is to learn from each competition and improve.

I look at everything I’ve done critically - but I think that’s the job of an actor. If you ever sit on your laurels or think that you’re good - in a way, I don’t then think you’re pushing yourself.