Mae Whitman Quotes

When I watch myself on camera, in any capacity - being interviewed, performing, 20 years ago or yesterday - there's a part of me that really doesn't grasp that it's me.

Sometimes I forget that I am even watching myself, realizing that's me. It's like you almost become a fan yourself: You are just this normal person watching this show, and then you realize that it's your show. It's weird sometimes.

I don't even watch my own actual self on TV.

I don't really watch video of myself. Yeah, I don't really - I never really have.

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.

When I watch myself in movies I go, 'My God.'

It's not like I sit around watching my movies again and again, but I've never quite believed actors when they say they don't watch themselves.

Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.

It's difficult to see yourself up on screen without being a critic.

If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching another person.

It's really hard to watch yourself.

It's odd seeing yourself on screen at all.

I'm not the sort of person who reads much about himself.

It is interesting to watch yourself on a reality show. It makes you think about the things that you say and how what you meant to convey can be so easily miscommunicated and misunderstood.

It's always tricky to watch yourself, always. When I first had to watch myself, it was really hard because I'd done quite a few plays and I've never seen myself. So I was professional but I'd never watched myself. So I was like hearing you know... I'm sure you guys are all much more familiar with that because everybody has a phone, and everyone's taking pictures of themselves and making movies of themselves. And so people are more accustomed to it now. So I had to get used to it because there's a lot to be learned, of course, as an actor. When you watch yourself, you learn a lot.

I hate watching myself, as do a lot of actors.

I really don't like watching myself and for the most part I will never watch myself. I worked with Kevin Smith on Yoga Hosers and I really respected the way that he directed. He told me, "It's very important to watch yourself." So he would direct by going, "Hey come over to the screen and watch this scene." And so it was very uncomfortable for me to have to watch myself but then he talked me through the process of that and it was very helpful.

It's a little dangerous for me to get outside myself and think about how I want people to see me.

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

If I can avoid looking at myself, I will. I don't care to examine myself or see much of what I do. I never care how I look.

I don't cast somebody that I think is like my younger self.

When I watch myself on TV, it's impossible not to say, 'Is that really what my neck looks like?'

I find it difficult to watch myself... I find it boring.

I'm not good at watching myself.

I feel like I have a kind of mirror blindness where it's hard for me to characterize or analyze my own work. I suspect I'm not unique in this regard.