Trace Cyrus Quotes

I don't much like to look back with the idea that I was doing it wrong then or I'm doing it wrong now.

I'm never a person who likes anything I've done. It's just the way it is. Twenty years later, I can look at something I did, and I'm still thinking, 'You know, that could have been better if you had done it this way or that way.

I look back on my work and I think, 'Oh, why didn't I do that differently?'

I felt that some of my work was OK. If I could do it over, I'd do better.

I've never made a perfect speech or a perfect anything. I always think after, I should have done it that way or this way.

There's always something that you go 'I should've done this better, I would've done that.'

There's no doubt that probably at least once a week, maybe once a day, I said, "Ah, I should have done that better."

The second I finish shooting something, I know I could have done it better if we started right then.

I think it was Duke Ellington who once said that we're always most pleased with our current record. I mean, you have to assume that you learn from one, and you do something better next time.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels.

I've seen my performances. I don't like them.

I have looked back on situations and thought that I could have handled a few differently and probably better.

I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.

You only think of the best comeback when you leave.

I like my raps, but I'm never too happy with some of 'em because I feel like they could be better.

Where I Was Wrong

It's a maddening thing in itself to look at an old poem of yours. To translate it is even more maddening.

You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are the flaws, what you would do differently.

I used to drive myself crazy by thinking, three days later, 'Ugh, why didn't I play it like that? Ugh, now that line makes sense to me.'

I wouldn't say I regret anything. I would say I just wish I did things better.

I hate watching myself because when I watch anything I've ever done, I realize all the ways I could have done it better.

The failures that you beat yourself up over are the ones where you experienced warning signs and can connect the dots backwards after the fact.

When I look back I either feel I did this mistake while shooting or writing. Eventually you try and make sure you do not repeat the same mistake with your next film. I always feel I could have made the film better.

Tours always leave us some regrets and thoughts that we could have done better and should have done better.