Troy Donahue Quotes

I wonder, 'Why did I do that line that way?' And I also constantly think I'm fat and hate my teeth. But I've gotten better over the years. I've started to accept.

You can criticize yourself to a point to do something better, or you criticize yourself to a point where you inhibit yourself.

No one is perfect and everyone wishes they could change something about themselves.

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.

Try really, really hard not to judge your own work too harshly.

I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.

Self-esteem, the kind that comes from finding the sweet spot between a healthy fondness for yourself and healthy self-skepticism, tends to get harder to come by the older we get.

I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.

When people come to me and tell me I was terrific in this or that, I do not want to fall flat on my face the next time. But, tough, I have fallen flat before. You just get up and dust yourself off.

I don't see myself as a perfectionist.

One of the things that I have learned in the last few years is to stop being so damn critical of my own work.

I'm never happy with my performances. I always want to prove more and more things.

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.

A lot of what keeps me going is wanting to be better, thinking I'm not good enough.

I don't know anyone who is more self-critical than me.

I understand that feeling of insecurity, like you're not good enough as you are, and you need to change.

I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.

I feel like I need to improve in every area. That might shock people, but I'm never satisfied with my game.

I don't mind people liking or not liking me. If you make something and then in the back of your mind you think it could have been a bit better, that can hurt a bit.

If I were somebody else looking at my character, I'd be like, "She's beautiful." I'm practicing. I'm not succeeding.

I hope I can improve. I'm far from perfect. Sometimes, I wonder what would happen if I fought myself. I think it would be a one-round KO. But if I was fighting myself, I know I could take my best punch. No, make that two rounds. I would knock myself out in two rounds.

There have been a few moments when I have known complete satisfaction, but only a few. I have rarely been free from the disturbing realization that my playing might have been better.

I've always been someone who is pretty hard on herself. But I've lightened up a lot.

I've very critical of myself, and film has been an adjustment for me.

And I kind of said to myself if I get my voice back I'm not going to take back the old anxiety about it and just focus on the limitations. I'm really going to enjoy it.