Paul Giamatti Quotes

Any actor or actress that tells you that they don't watch their stuff is lying.

You know yourself if you are doing well, and I think my form shouldn't be getting questioned.

I watched a couple of films I was in and thought, 'Those are pretty close to what we wanted them to be. I feel actually weirdly OK with it all. I can still see flaws in what I'm doing, but I think I delivered. I think I improved the film with my presence.'

If you're an old pro, you know how well you're doing when you're doing it, and your inner government spanks you if you're not doing well.

When you feel like you've had a good show, you go backstage and you talk to yourself about it, and if you have a bad show you talk to yourself about it.

It doesn't matter to me if I'm in love with my performance, so I watch all of my performances to understand and learn from them and figure out what's working and what's not. And I see the movies that I'm in in the theater a lot.

I don't find it hard to direct myself. I can easily think of me as a horrible performer or a good performer. I work with actors who cannot stand watching or looking at themselves, which is not my case. I can have an eye and perspective on whether I'm terrible or good enough for me.

I'm not so sure I 'like' to watch myself on film, but I do find it necessary in order to continually be a better artist.

How'm I doing?

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

I don't mind if my performances get dissected and people criticise what I've done on the pitch. They can talk about my game 24/7 for all I care. And a lot of those opinions and criticisms may actually be right. So I don't mind that.

I think how I'm playing, not who I'm playing.

As far as my overall grade or performance in WWE, I'd say I did the best I could at the time.

Every player usually watches their clips back of how they play: mistakes, duels, things that are specific for your game. I wanted to be proud of that and I wanted to see it in person, I suppose, because in the past I have had a lot of criticism for things that I have done.

You have to look back on everything that you've done and critique yourself and find the holes in your game that you can continue to get better.

At most contests now, skaters are judged against themselves.

At the end of each day, you should play back the tapes of your performance. The results should either applaud you or prod you.

Overall there's going to be things I'm not great at.

I am constantly analysing my performances and I tend to focus more on things I haven't done as well as I'd have liked.

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

The stage has a certain discipline. But the ultimate standard is more exacting in film, because you have to see yourself and you are your own toughest critic.

Check up each week on the progress you are making. Ask yourself what mistakes you have made, what improvement, what lessons you have learned for the future.

We measure everything by ourselves with almost a necessary conceit.

Who judges best of a Man, his Enemies or himself?

I'm a good judge of my own work.