Austin Butler Quotes

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

I'm not good at watching myself.

A mentor long departed told me that the greatest gift in political life, in any life, is to view yourself objectively, at arm's length, to make an assessment of yourself. So whom do I rely on? I rely on myself.

I think a lot about my own game.

I don't really watch video of myself. Yeah, I don't really - I never really have.

There's no better way of learning from your experiences than having an open and honest conversation with yourself about why you fell short.

It's always tricky to watch yourself, always. When I first had to watch myself, it was really hard because I'd done quite a few plays and I've never seen myself. So I was professional but I'd never watched myself. So I was like hearing you know... I'm sure you guys are all much more familiar with that because everybody has a phone, and everyone's taking pictures of themselves and making movies of themselves. And so people are more accustomed to it now. So I had to get used to it because there's a lot to be learned, of course, as an actor. When you watch yourself, you learn a lot.

At the end of each day, you should play back the tapes of your performance. The results should either applaud you or prod you.

To question your own process is a necessity. If you don't question yourself, it's impossible to improve.

Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.

There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.

I have considered myself a mature actor.

I'm not so sure I 'like' to watch myself on film, but I do find it necessary in order to continually be a better artist.

The biggest thing is I watch myself: What I need to improve on, what I can do different.

I'm always willing to look at my actions, and do them better.

I evaluate myself at the end of every year.

I've always liked to watch myself onscreen because that's how I learn.

The criticism is what I expect, honestly, because I'm criticizing myself every day when I come in here and watch that film. I'm trying to get better.

Part and parcel of trying to understand and recognise your strengths and weaknesses is to be brutally honest with how you reflect on what you are yourself. I can't fundamentally change what I am.

I'm about growth for myself. So if I've made a lot of mistakes, and I haven't learnt from them, then I've failed as a human being.

I don't see myself as a world-class player.

You have to be able to analyze yourself and critique yourself from every which way.

People can be critical about your game, but no one knows better than the player as to what he needs.

A part of control is learning to correct your own weaknesses. The person doesn't live who was born with everything. Sometimes he has one weak point, generally he has several. The first thing is to know your faults. And then take on a systematic plan of correcting them. You know the old saying about a chain only being as strong as its weakest link. The same can be said in the chain of skills a man forges.

If we can stop, listen, and think about what others are seeing in us, we have a great opportunity. We can compare the self that we want to be with the self that we are presenting to the rest of the world. We can then begin to make the real changes that are needed to close the gap between our stated values and our actual behavior.