Rachel Riley Quotes

And I think for me there's a lot of neurosis involved with where you should be or thinking about where you are all the time instead of being where you are.

I'm like a recovering perfectionist. For me it's one day at a time.

I'm a horrible perfectionist and very highly strung. That's why I do yoga: to unwind.

I'm my own worst critic, so I try and not focus on what I've done wrong, or what I could improve on.

Everything that these folks are saying that they're trying to move away from, like comparison, perfectionism, judgement, and exhaustion as a status symbol - that all describes my life. It was more like a medical researcher studying a disease and figuring out he or she has it.

You have to be reasonable with yourself and not feel guilty when things aren't perfect.

I obsess too much.

To grapple with and understand anxiety is, in some sense, to grapple with and understand the human condition.

The worst bullies you will ever encounter in your life are your own thoughts.

I'm neurotic about trying not to be neurotic!

As I have got older, I have become easier on myself. It's about realising things can't be perfect.

I've got an overactive, analytical brain. I get frustrated, impatient, angry with myself. I swear at myself a lot.

I don't know - sometimes I catch myself being dark, and it's annoying. I think, 'Get over it.' I bore myself. But sometimes, like everybody, I'm sure I am obsessive.

I try to recognize that there is no such thing as having it all - and it's impossible to be perfect. You just have to let certain things go.

I criticise myself an awful lot. I do worry to the point that I don't think it's very healthy. I'm always picking my flaws. It's a terrible anxiety I have. I wish I could pretend nothing fazes me, but it does.

I do have a touch of OCD, and I used to obsess about research. But I'm better than I was. Gone are the days when I would drive to a set of traffic lights to find out if you could turn left. I finally realised it didn't matter. A book will not stand or fall on whether or not there's a branch of Starbucks in Brixton.

When I realized that nothing is perfect and no one is perfect, I was able to overcome my initial fears. I was holding myself to some weird standard that I was putting outside of myself, i.e., the director or casting director - they're not expecting perfection. I had all these strange trappings I would put myself in.

It's been hard, but I've finally come to the realization that it's okay to not be perfect.

I'm a perfectionist. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it's okay if there are flaws here and there.

The way you talk to yourself sometimes is terrible! I hear myself, and I go, 'I can't believe you're talking to my friend Allison like that!' It's really terrible, the things we say to ourselves.

It's important to have an examined life - but it's a fine line between having an examined life and being hypercritical of oneself. There has to be balance in there somewhere.

Realize that everyone that you think is perfect feels like they're not good enough, too.

If you think negatively, it's hard to get out of tense moments.

You can't juggle it all 100 percent. You don't have to be perfect. You don't have to do everything.

One of the things that I have learned in the last few years is to stop being so damn critical of my own work.