Emmy Rossum Quotes

If I believe that I became the best quarterback that I could possibly be, the best football player that I could possibly be... That's how I'm going to measure my career as a success or not.

I'm competitive with myself, but not with other people. I set goals for myself. I don't really care about winning or losing as long as I do my best.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

I am very self-critical and always will be. I think this makes me want to improve, always. But just because I'm self-critical and say what I thought of my performance in a game, it doesn't mean I will bring myself down, ever.

I have some pride in the things I've done, but I'm pretty hard on myself. Part of looking at my old work is to motivate me to try harder.

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.

You always think, "Oh, I'm sure I could have done that better." But generally speaking, I am very proud of this.

Only madmen and fools are pleased with themselves; no wise man is good enough for his own satisfaction.

I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

Maybe sometimes I have been wrong with some movies. Anyway, I try to do my best.

I've never really spent a lot of time thinking about my individual accomplishments actually.

At the end of the day, I feel like I have no one to blame but myself if I'm not satisfied with how I look on the runway.

Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don't ignore that critic but don't give it more attention than it deserves.

If I'm going to be the best in what I do, I have to study what I'm doing, I have to see what I'm doing. I have to see it, I have to hear it. I'm just starting to appreciate myself - not starting, but appreciating myself in a way where I can look at myself back in a movie or listen to myself as much as I do now.

I don't think I'm successful.

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

One summer, when I was a kid, I was in the car with my stepfather, and he was asking me where I thought I ranked, on a scale of 1 to 10. I said, '6,' and he said, '3.' I think it was his way of telling me that I needed to get out and really attack life.

I have no regrets, because I've done everything I could to the best of my ability.

I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.

I still enjoy my life, and I feel like I've achieved enough things that if I never did anything again, I'd feel confident that I'd still have made my mark in some way. But maybe the self-loathing bit is the element that makes you strive for more. Makes you strive to be better.

I'm stupidly proud of myself.

So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

I'm usually very critical of myself.

The easiest thing in the world is to succeed. You can't help it if you follow the rules and play the game the best way you know how according to yourself, instead of according to the one next to you, or above you, or somewhere away from you.

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.