David Nicholls Quotes

All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.

Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be.

I’m vain because I’m imperfect.

If I were somebody else looking at my character, I'd be like, "She's beautiful." I'm practicing. I'm not succeeding.

...self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy.

He had an opinion of himself, I think, that was too high for his own good. Or maybe it was the reverse. Maybe it was a low opinion that he kept trying to erase.

I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.

I'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.

Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.

No one is perfect and everyone wishes they could change something about themselves.

And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.

If I'm honest I don't think the world would miss me if I never acted again.

I'm usually very critical of myself.

I'm very self-critical.

It's difficult to have everybody like everything you do. I don't know anybody that's perfect and doesn't have a zit somewhere.

I don't see in myself any perfection.

I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.

I am critical of myself.

When I say I don't like my own work, that doesn't mean it isn't better than everyone else's.

I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure.

I'm not hard on myself - I brush those things off - but there are days when I'm pleased with myself, and days when I think I have elf ears.

I'm not that interesting of a person.

I consider myself a little weak.

I'm never impressed with myself!

I'm very critical of myself.