Douglas Booth Quotes

I will never reach perfection.

I'm not perfect, but I strive for it.

It's hard to be perfect, but that's something we try to strive for.

A lot of what keeps me going is wanting to be better, thinking I'm not good enough.

If you think that you did everything and know everything and that everything has been done perfectly well, then it's time to retire.

Perfection is impossible without humility. Why should I strive for perfection, if I am already good enough?

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

I always say I've given 24 insufficient performances and I'm looking forward to the time in my life when I'll do something that I think is good. There's always stuff you can do better, stuff that maybe you didn't uncover enough. But if you do something that you truly believe is perfect, then that's got to be the last movie you do.

In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection. But that won't stop me trying.

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

I'm not perfect, but I'd like to be perfect. I'm working on it.

I'd like to think I haven't done my best yet.

When people call me God, I say, no, I'm still an angel or saint of acting. I still have a long way to go.

I don't think there's ever a point when you turn to yourself and go, 'Yes, I've made a success of this career path.' You never feel like you've done your best work. You always think you could be better.

One of the by-products of being a perfectionist and constantly trying to improve myself are sobering feelings of low-grade anxiety and a nagging sense of inadequacy. But this is not anxiety without a purpose. No, this anxiety keeps me humble. It creates a healthy tension that serves as the catalyst that drives me to fulfill my limited potential.

You have to recover the capacity to imagine yourself as an ideal and figure out how to project that into the world.

I'm not perfect but I always try to give of my best.

You should want to be the best at whatever your chosen field is.

Work on not becoming good but excellent.

I've tried to figure out ways to be less pleased other than the search for perfection. Talk about a thing that'll make you have a miserable life. On that quest, on that journey, down that path, there's a lot of feelings of, 'Why am I doing all this?'

I'm by no means the person that I strive to be. I don't think anyone is the person that we strive to be. But I try.

I was very ambitious as a young actor, but I wasn't good at being ambitious.

From what I came from, all the negative criticism - that keeps me from embracing that title of being the best. Because I always feel like there is another level I have to get to.

If you're looking for perfection, look in the mirror. If you find it there, expect it elsewhere.

I am really not "cyclonic" at all. Far from it. What I want is not here, nor can I longer bear this "cyclonic" atmosphere. This is the way to perfection, to strive to be perfect, and to strive to make perfect a few men and women. My idea of doing good is this: to evolve out a few giants, and not to strew pearls before swine, and so lose time, health, and energy.