Charles Forsman Quotes

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.

I do not take to the field to defend myself from certain criticisms. If I do, in this kind of career, it is because I'm very self-critical.

Of course I am doing a good job, but you can always improve, and I just leave it up to people outside, around me or whatever, to judge on that.

Being critical of yourself is important sometimes: not during the season, because you need to be confident, but during the winter, it's always a good time to look at yourself in the mirror and say, 'This, this, and this I need to improve.' That's how it is.

educators best serve students by helping them be more self-reflective. The only way any of us can improve—as Coach Graham taught me—is if we develop a real ability to assess ourselves. If we can’t accurately do that, how can we tell if we’re getting better or worse?

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

The key thing is you can be the only person, your own critic.

To question your own process is a necessity. If you don't question yourself, it's impossible to improve.

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.

I have considered myself a mature actor.

I do not think I'm a great talent. I think I'm a medium talent, but I think I understand the business and enjoy the business.

I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better. I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

As an actress, I have to be objective about myself. If I don't criticize myself, there are plenty who will do a find job of it for me!

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 think everybody has a moment in their career where you have to test whether it was right or wrong. We've all been there. I've looked back at performances of my own, where only you know if it is something you want to repeat. As long as you know when it's not right that you don't repeat it all the time.

I think my game measures up pretty well to myself.

A mentor long departed told me that the greatest gift in political life, in any life, is to view yourself objectively, at arm's length, to make an assessment of yourself. So whom do I rely on? I rely on myself.

I try to keep myself on an even keel by trying to be as critical of myself as I am of other people. I try to separate my performance from myself.

I learned my lesson early in my career that it's not helpful to go and look at what other people's opinions are.

I always look at myself as kind of a work in progress. I hope that's not always the case. But for me, every film is a learning experience.

I just want to take the time to think about what I've achieved in my career so far, where I need to go, and what I need to do to get better as a player.

I'm the greatest critic of my work.

Improving, for me, is quite natural as I'm always critical of myself.

I'm always my hardest critic.