Giovanni Ribisi Quotes

As I get into it more, I want to grow as an artist, as an entertainer, and basically perfect my craft.

As an artist, you're always going to be yearning and wanting and never satisfied. I never feel like I've really achieved something.

I demand more of myself than anyone else could ever expect.

I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

I put so much pressure on myself to raise the bar with each and every project. I treat it like every film is my last, and I make sure I pour everything I have into every film I make because if I'm not trying to improve, someone else will.

I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.

When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself.

Both of my girls have very high self-esteem because they were both able to master certain things; I should think that's good for their confidence.

Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, 'It can't be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it.' That's kind of stuck with me.

I'm no dancer. I got rhythm, I can dance if I need to, but I'm not Chris Brown. He's an amazing dancer. If I'm not going to be amazing at it, I'm not gon' do it. I'm gonna do what works for me, and you're going to feel it 'cause it's me.

No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, a superb character, a masterpiece.

Whatever I do, I want to be the best.

If you challenge yourself and try to be the best in all areas, you have to be a complete driver.

I'm always trying to be the most complete back I can be.

It's important to see the work of as many directors as possible but you must not become self-conscious. You have to accept that your first attempts are going to be quite rough compared to the finished works of great masters.

I can't be a savior. But I can be the best I can be.

It's a challenge each and every day to just be the best that you can be at your craft.

Play what you know and then play above that

I need to be the best Chris Brown I can be.

If you can win complete mastery over self, you will easily master all else. To triumph over self is the perfect victory.

One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.

There are certain bad habits we've groomed our whole life -- from personality flaws to fashion faux pas. And it has been the role of parents and friends, outside of some minor tweaking, to reinforce the belief that we're okay just as we are. But it's not enough to just be yourself. You have to be your best self. And that's a tall order if you haven't found your best self yet.

If you cannot get along with yourself, you'll never be able to get along with other people.

A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.