Miles Davis Quotes

When you talk yourself, you think how witty, how original, how acute you are; but when another does so, you are very apt to think only - What a crib from Rochefoucauld!

If you think everything you've done is great, you're probably dumb.

I've always avoided those sorts of self-assessments because if you give yourself a 10 out of 10 people think you're a big head, if you give yourself a 6 out of 10 they think you're plagued with self-doubt, so I'm just not going to rate myself.

I criticize my own work pretty harshly.

I have a tough time judging myself.

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

I'm more critical of the films I make than anyone else.

Do I have more depth than I'm given credit for? No!

The important thing is not what they think of me, but what I think of them.

Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.

No one ever judges their own self.

I think I'm perfectly reasonable.

It's difficult to judge yourself.

I evaluate myself pretty tough.

To be honest, I never compare myself with the rookies.

I do not need to hear how I am judged by others. I know by myself if I can be satisfied or not with my work.

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.

We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.

I think I'm still, in many ways, a terribly self-conscious person. I'd probably be shooting and think, "Well, how does my hair look?"

If I was fighting myself, I always say that I would kill Mike Tyson but then again I don't know how hard a punch Mike Tyson can take and I don't know how hard Mike Tyson's punch is. I don't know. For me looking at me, I think I can beat me.

I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.

If you ask any of the other actors, they'd probably say nice things because they're nice people, but I was always like, "Oh gosh, I hope I'm doing this right." I was very hard on myself, and I continue to be. That's why it's sometimes hard for me to digest watching myself on television. There is some pressure.

I think I'm a pretty cliché actor in that I hate watching myself on film. I don't know why it should be humbling to see yourself on film.

What the sayer of praise is really praising is himself, by saying implicitly, My eyes are clear." Likewise, someone who criticizes is criticizing himself, saying implicitly, "I can't see very well with my eyes so inflamed.

I view myself in the narrowest possible terms, but I don't watch anything I've been in, and I don't read reviews or analysis of movies I've been in, or my plays.