Jascha Heifetz Quotes

I'm always looking for perfection. Even after training and my coaches say I did good, I always think I could have done more.

I can't say I've ever finished a film and been particularly thrilled with myself or patted myself on the back. And maybe that's what keeps me going, and that's a good thing. It speaks volumes about how I perceive myself.

The criticism is what I expect, honestly, because I'm criticizing myself every day when I come in here and watch that film. I'm trying to get better.

I don't feel like congratulating myself, because I know there's still a lot of room for improvement.

I always think I could do better. I always think that something could be more perfect, but I think that that's just within my nature. I think I want to please a director, I want to give my everything and find every which way I could have burrowed further into a character.

I'm the kind of person where you're never done, you just keep perfecting and perfecting and perfecting, or trying to fix things that drive you crazy. Often times when you watch a film, "if I could just get through this minute, I'll be fine." So I think I'm just hard on myself.

I'm my own biggest critic, and the only way I'm going to improve is to see what I was doing wrong.

I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

Maybe sometimes I have been wrong with some movies. Anyway, I try to do my best.

I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.

Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don't ignore that critic but don't give it more attention than it deserves.

If you don't second-guess yourself, then you are not trying to get better.

What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.

I always say I've given 24 insufficient performances and I'm looking forward to the time in my life when I'll do something that I think is good. There's always stuff you can do better, stuff that maybe you didn't uncover enough. But if you do something that you truly believe is perfect, then that's got to be the last movie you do.

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.

I'll need my whole lifetime to polish my craft.

Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

My greatest competition is, well, me.

Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.

I'm usually very critical of myself.

As an actress, I have to be objective about myself. If I don't criticize myself, there are plenty who will do a find job of it for me!

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

I'm learning something all the time. That's the way I want it to go, and that's the way I'll go until I am no longer on this planet.

I'm a perfectionist, so I always feel there's room for improvement.

I'm a perfectionist, and I always think that I can do better what I have done, even if it's good.