Larry David Quotes

I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.

I'm a grown woman. I can come up with plenty of things that I've done and said or didn't say or failed to do that remain with me as sources of embarrassment.

But I had a strong reaction to my first three albums and I struggle with them now, as an adult. It's very much the same as looking at your teenage photos in high school.

People still say I am over-confident, but I am a big critic of myself.

It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us. This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good heart whatever they might have to say.

If I were somebody else looking at my character, I'd be like, "She's beautiful." I'm practicing. I'm not succeeding.

I think most of us become self-critical as soon as we become self-conscious.

I'm not good at watching myself.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

When I look back at the way that I was in that documentary I cringe.

Decree of Self-Reproach

I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes.

I don't enjoy hearing myself talk.

I'm hard on myself, like, 'Oh, why did you say that?' But it helps me grow.

I'm my biggest critic of myself when I make mistakes.

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

I do always look back and feel faintly embarrassed by anything I've done in the past. I think that's not a terrible thing, because if you don't do that, how are you growing and moving forward?

I've criticized myself over the years.

I don't know anyone who is more self-critical than me.

I evaluate myself pretty tough.

I know straight away if I can do better. It doesn't take people to criticise me for me to realise it.

The reality is almost everything I do I cringe about later.

I'm the first one to always criticize myself, and I'm trying to find ways to get better.

Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice.

Watching myself still makes me uneasy - and when you're younger, you're even more unforgiving.