Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

I'm my own biggest critic, so no matter what was being said in the media or being said by fans, I feel the worst when I disappoint myself.

But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.

I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.

Honestly, if I was looking at myself and I cheated, then I'd just think, 'Wow, how disappointing, I actually thought you were better than that.' It's about me and about the kind of man I want to be.

You have competition every day because you set such high standards for yourself that you have to go out every day and live up to that.

I will always be my hardest critic. Nobody else will ever be able to come at something I do harder than I come at myself.

I have very high expectations out of myself.

No pressure on the outside is greater than the pressure I put on myself.

I've always been hard on myself, so I expect so much out of myself that that pressure can be inspiring at time.

I set the bar very high. I'm very tough on myself.

I don't need to go every day and re-evaluate, 'Am I living up to this? Or that or this?'

Living up to people's expectations is one thing but it was even harder to live up to my own expectations.

I am very demanding of myself.

Nobody's expectations are going to be more than mine.

I'm very demanding of myself.

I know what I think of myself and the standard I hold myself to.

I'm always my toughest critic. I'm setting the expectations for myself, and that's enough pressure. I don't need to worry about the haters or the Twitter trolls or what everybody else thinks.

I don't think there's anybody that puts more pressure on himself than I do.

I hold myself to a high standard.

At the end of the day, nobody has higher expectations for me than myself. I don't really try to prove anyone wrong anymore as much as I try to prove myself right.

I am my own worst critic and I am hell to pay so I just have to do everything to my utmost ability.

He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.

I think sometimes it's about just finding the measuring stick that's different than the one the world puts on you. It's finding the one in which you're held accountable and how you hold each other accountable; what a good job looks like in a particular situation and how to be better at your job than you were yesterday.

I put a lot of pressure on myself to be the best.

Our biggest competitor is ourselves.