Jim Root Quotes

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

I can't stand to watch anything that I'm in. I tear it apart. The worst thing you can do is leave me alone and let me watch what I'm in. It's abusive.

I'm never happy with anything I've done! If you sat me down and played everything I've ever recorded, I'd just sit there going, 'No... that could be better.'

I hate all of my own matches. I hate all of my own work. I am my worst critic.

We're our own worst critics.

I think, as a country, that we can be quite harsh on ourselves.

As lovely as people are to me about my performance, I'm still a huge critic. I like very little of what I ever do.

I criticize my own work pretty harshly.

I'm very bad at having heroes. I don't rate anyone particularly highly because I'm so snide and competitive and not very nice.

I've never been super confident about anything. The work is never as good as it could be.

I have never been satisfied with a piece of work I have been actively involved in, and would never want to be.

I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do.

I'm a perfectionist, so I always feel there's room for improvement.

I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws.

I do not look at myself every morning and think: 'Oh, my gosh, I am so perfect, so beautiful, so talented.' No, I like to make fun of myself.

Women are hard on themselves.

I don't blame people who suspect my performance. My own mind suspects it. How can I blame them?

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

I definitely have a tendency to only see the blemishes of things, and see lots of things about my acting that I don't like.

Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.

Well, once we finish something, I can't really listen to it because all I hear are problems.

I'm so hard on myself and a really harsh critic of my work.

With every job I watch, I can't find peace with what I've done. It's never good enough in my mind. I will never be happy if I'm in that mindset, unless I get a review that starts: 'Once in a generation.'

Every word I write I suspect the next day.

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