Vladimir Putin Quotes

I'm not the kind of person that seeks out other people's opinions on my works.

I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.

It's not my job to rate myself and judge myself. That's up to someone else.

I was probably in the best shape of any athlete at the time, but you don't get to pass judgment on yourself.

Awards are not the only markers of success; I don't judge myself just based on them. I believe that each cinema-goer has his own mental trophies.

Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.

My rule of thumb is that I want to do things I'd like to go and see myself.

I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.

If you are objective enough to say: 'I could have done this, this and that's,' all the other critics and all the other voices are really not important and don't exist anymore.

I don't like being told what you're good at. I'd rather hear what I didn't do.

I know when I am good and when I am not good. I don't need anyone to tell me.

It's hard for me to measure them, or to assess my books because I'm so close to them.

I definitely don't think of myself as being an influence.

Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.

I have never gauged myself against anyone else.

You're always going to be more judgmental about your own performance than anyone else.

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

I never think about what others are doing. I do a film for myself, not others.

I always thought I should base how good I am on how good I feel I am.

I don't care what other people think any more about me writing my own parts.

Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.

I would be far more critical than any reviewer could be of my own work. So I simply don't read them.

I am beyond critical of my own work. I always tell actors they have to watch themselves 4-7 times in a given scene before they can be remotely objective.

You never undertake a project because you think other people will like it - because that way lies madness - but rather because you believe in it.

I ought to be groovy and be able to say the enemy is this and the enemy is that... but I've never been very good at... I don't want to have to answer questions I don't know the answer to properly. I have an opinion.