Anushka Sharma Quotes

I'm never happy with my performance.

I'm an actor, so I'm never going to feel like I've done enough.

I'm never happy with my work. I always go back home thinking I could have done so so much better.

I will never fix my architectural style and never be satisfied with my works.

I don't think any actor can be happy with their performance. There's always something you wish you would have done or said differently.

Well, of course, every actor's limited, and I am the first one to admit it, in all honesty, when I think that I've hit the wall a bit. I'm not ashamed at all, I think it's a process that you have to go through. That's how you learn.

I'm never satisfied, man. I'm Virgo. We overanalyze and we're never satisfied. So I'm gonna keep going 'til the wheels fall off.

For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all.

We're taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that you're never perfect and that you're never good enough.

If I wasn't so insecure about myself I wouldn't work as hard as I do. I am constantly seeking approval.

Part of me feels that I'm letting people down by not being as interesting as my books.

I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.

I'm never a person who likes anything I've done. It's just the way it is. Twenty years later, I can look at something I did, and I'm still thinking, 'You know, that could have been better if you had done it this way or that way.

I've always been a bit of a self-doubter. I think a lot of actors are.

As far as I can tell, most actors' main motivation is self-doubt and neuroses.

I've never felt completely satisfied with what I've done. I tend to see things too critically. I'm trying to get over that.

As an actor, you're constantly riddled with self-doubt. You are your own worst critic.

I can't say I've ever finished a film and been particularly thrilled with myself or patted myself on the back. And maybe that's what keeps me going, and that's a good thing. It speaks volumes about how I perceive myself.

No one leaves the edit room thinking, 'Yeah, I nailed that one!' Everyone I know goes into their first premiere or their first screening thinking, 'I screwed up so bad. I'm sorry, I messed up.' It's just a real common feeling.

Playing Isabella in 'Measure for Measure' pushed me to my limits. Janet Suzman was directing, and she was very hard on me. I went through phases of not liking her at the time, but I loved her for it in the end.

Usually when I see myself in a film or on television, there's about a six-month period where I can't look at it because all I'll see are the mistakes. I'm just appalled by the person that I see.

I've never been happy with the quality of my work. I always felt as though my musicianship was lacking and that I should have worked harder at it when I was younger. As I sang and sang, I improved.

My stories are never quite good enough.

Even now, I have traces of the good little girl. When I am not performing, for instance, I am really very quiet and ordinary.

I definitely have a tendency to only see the blemishes of things, and see lots of things about my acting that I don't like.