Eliza Dushku Quotes

I'm so super-critical of everything that I do.

I'm going to tell you right now, no one is harder on me than me. The fact that fans sit there and boo me, I'm booing myself when I'm walking in.

I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'

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

I know I'm my own worst critic.

I'm hard on myself. I'm my biggest critic.

I'm always my worst critic.

I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.

I just don't analyze what I do, because I'm afraid I won't be able to do it anymore. I'm sort of superstitious. And that's why I've never looked back at any movie I've done.

I often don't see what I've done, or I cringe when I watch myself.

I criticize my own work pretty harshly.

When I direct and have to look at filmed scenes of myself, I suck.

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

I question every move. I'm constantly second-guessing myself.

Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don't ignore that critic but don't give it more attention than it deserves.

I always say I've given 24 insufficient performances and I'm looking forward to the time in my life when I'll do something that I think is good. There's always stuff you can do better, stuff that maybe you didn't uncover enough. But if you do something that you truly believe is perfect, then that's got to be the last movie you do.

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

Try really, really hard not to judge your own work too harshly.

I am harder on myself than anyone else could be.

Some people go to bed at night thinking, 'That was a good day.' I am one of those who worries and asks, 'How did I screw up today?'

Usually when I see myself in a film or on television, there's about a six-month period where I can't look at it because all I'll see are the mistakes. I'm just appalled by the person that I see.

Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.

Most professional players are their own biggest critics. Some of the things you read in the papers that strike you as bang out of order will already have been thought by the players themselves.

I don't watch my playbacks because I hate to see myself act.

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