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I don't often see the movies I'm in; I'm usually disappointed in myself and it only serves to make me self-conscious.

I'm never happy with my work. I always go back home thinking I could have done so so much better.

There's no point in looking back, because there's nothing you can really do to improve the film. You can only aggravate and wish you had done stuff better.

Regret is just perfectionism plus time.

By the time I'm done with a project, it's taken so long that I usually don't even like it anymore. I only see the things I wish I'd done differently.

When 'Deadwood' ended, I thought, 'I'll never have this again, ever.'

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.

The reason it takes me so long to make a film, the reason it gets so difficult, is that I'm trying to think of every film as the last one I will ever make so it can be the best it can possibly be. I don't want to have regrets or excuses or think, 'I can do better next time.'

When you blow an audition that you have a lot of importance on, it haunts you for years.

I can't take it back. I can't take anything back. So I don't regret it.

I can never tell if anything I do is really good. I'm always just slightly chagrined.

You can finish the day's filming or the whole shoot or watch something months later and think you could have done it so much better. It's frustrating.

I will say, there's not an episode in existence where whatever didn't come out the way I wanted it to or is an actual mistake that won't nag at me until the end of the time.

I don't watch my old films like 'Roja,' 'Dil Se' because I only see mistakes. I see five minutes of the film and I am scared I will start finding mistakes in them.

The truth of the matter is, I worry about nearly every bit I've ever done. I'm very critical of myself.

I'm such a perfectionist and I want to do everything right, kick every goal, do everything perfectly, but that is not reality.

When I look back, I think I could have done this scene or that better. I am not satisfied with my work at all. I think I could have done better. I am never satisfied.

I know now that much of the pressure that resulted in my breakdown was self-imposed. I didn't let myself enjoy the opportunities I was given, choosing instead to doubt myself.

You can't go back and alter the past.

I'm very hard on myself. Sometimes too hard on myself. When I lost in the Wimbledon finals, I was so sad, I cried. I had the runner-up trophy! It's still a great accomplishment, but I was so mad.

I constantly have little panic attacks of wanting to change something on a production level, but I let go.

I hate getting things wrong and I hate failing.

I'm very picky; I'm never happy with anything. It's so hard to give the record away and accept that you're done.

When I look at my films, all I see is everything that went wrong.

Every time I watch a performance, I'm disgusted with how I've skated. It's very hurtful for me.