Daniel Radcliffe Quotes

No manager in the world gets good results all the time and you know there's people always ready to have a snipe. In fact I'm my own biggest critic, I really am. Because my own standards are so high, I criticise myself behind the scenes more than perhaps I should, according to people who know me well.

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with failure.

My life has been nothing but a failure.

I'm really disappointed at every event if I don't do less than what I wanted to do.

For a long time, I felt like I failed myself, my career, and my record company.

The memories for the missed opportunities are stronger than for the ones I managed to get over the line in.

Even though I don't feel I need approval, it's still important to me to give a good performance. I'm hard on myself.

If you don't score, and you have chances, you are disappointed.

I feel, in the end, as if everything I've done has been a failure.

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

You're always going to be more judgmental about your own performance than anyone else.

I have disappointed and failed to live up to the standard I expected of myself.

Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked.

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.

My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!

I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do.

I'm more critical of the films I make than anyone else.

No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.

It's a bad day when you don't get the work done that you need to get done or you don't get it done to the satisfaction.

There are times when you feel like you give a great effort, you have prepared properly, and you got less than what you wanted. So on the one hand, you should feel really good about that and just let the results be what they are. On the other hand, you can't be happy with it when you finished 19th.

A lot of people don't realize it, but I've a lot less success than I've have had success.

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.

I like the whole package to be good, It's a rarity that that happens, so I end up not working a lot.

Nothing you could do would make me mad. You're a complete official failure.