Paul Heyman Quotes

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 am never happy with what I do, so I try not to watch stuff that is filmed with me in it because I am always like, 'Oh, I could have done that a little bit better,' or, 'I could have done that differently - that riff could have been a little better.'

I look back on my work and I think, 'Oh, why didn't I do that differently?'

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

The selfish thing about an athlete is you always look at the side of things where you say I could've done that better.

I've seen my performances. I don't like them.

When I watch myself on-screen, I always look for the flaws.

I used to drive myself crazy by thinking, three days later, 'Ugh, why didn't I play it like that? Ugh, now that line makes sense to me.'

I don't watch my old films like 'Roja,' 'Dil Se' because I only see mistakes. I see five minutes of the film and I am scared I will start finding mistakes in them.

I relate to the feeling that Da Vinci was often plagued by the idea that what he did wasn't good enough, that he was his harshest critic. He'd sometimes destroy what he was working on.

I don't much like to look back with the idea that I was doing it wrong then or I'm doing it wrong now.

I've never listened to an album once I've finished it. All I hear is what I should've done different. I beat myself up over it.

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.

I felt that some of my work was OK. If I could do it over, I'd do better.

The problem with me is I always think I should've done better. I felt that after the World Cup final and through my whole career.

I don't like to watch my work after I do it because it just - I'll always look at the wrong things.

All actors are self-critical.

You can finish the day's filming or the whole shoot or watch something months later and think you could have done it so much better. It's frustrating.

I will say, there's not an episode in existence where whatever didn't come out the way I wanted it to or is an actual mistake that won't nag at me until the end of the time.

I've never made a perfect speech or a perfect anything. I always think after, I should have done it that way or this way.

When I look back, I think I could have done this scene or that better. I am not satisfied with my work at all. I think I could have done better. I am never satisfied.

There's always something that you go 'I should've done this better, I would've done that.'

When I'm working in theatre I never go to the bar with the other actors; I go home and think about what I did wrong.

Every time I watch a performance, I'm disgusted with how I've skated. It's very hurtful for me.

There's no doubt that probably at least once a week, maybe once a day, I said, "Ah, I should have done that better."