Manoj Bajpayee Quotes

I wish sometimes that I could be Daniel Day-Lewis and say, 'You know what? If you want me to do this, I'm going to need a year to prepare myself.' But if I do that, they'll say, 'Thank you very much,' and they'll take someone else.

Normally, it's difficult for me to watch a movie that I'm in.

For a long time, I can't say I was one who really enjoyed acting. I was always censoring it, or editing it, or analyzing it, rather than just going with it.

I cannot watch my own dailies, ever. I'm my worst critic. It distracts me. I can watch it when it's done, but I'm not the girl that wants to run back and look at the performance.

It's difficult to see yourself up on screen without being a critic.

I often wrangle with myself as an actor, and wrestle with the process. In striving for authenticity I often have the feeling I am falling short.

The minute you start making calculations about what people will think of you as a person based on your work as an actor, you're on the road to becoming a bad one.

And the actors tend not to want to watch themselves very often. I'm one of those guys.

Usually, I'm over-analyzing things that have to do with my own actions.

I'm still very critical of myself in film.

I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'

I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.

I normally don't concern myself with, 'Will audiences like me or like my character?'

I confess, I'm one of those actors who finds it incredibly hard to divorce myself and my performance from the work itself.

I like watching the other actors, but the hard thing about watching yourself is that the performance is done, and no matter how you'd like to tweak it, there's nothing you can do.

I don't watch anything I'm in. I'm too critical.

It's even hard for me to even watch myself, but that's the case with most actors. It's weird if an actor is like, 'I love watching myself.'

I'm just really interested, when a band plays and they think they sucked from a band perspective.

I really can't watch myself. I just get too in my head about it and start overthinking everything.

I hate watching myself, as do a lot of actors.

I always feel like a doctor who loses a patient on the operating table or something where I felt just devastated and I beat myself up until I get to try it the next night and “I'll get it better tonight.” So I'm hard on myself. I think I'm not alone in that regard with acting.

I view myself in the narrowest possible terms, but I don't watch anything I've been in, and I don't read reviews or analysis of movies I've been in, or my plays.

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled, reflective and spontaneous. Thus instead of suffering we suffer about suffering, and suffer about suffering about suffering.

As lovely as people are to me about my performance, I'm still a huge critic. I like very little of what I ever do.