Jeremy Hardy Quotes

I'm not into watching stuff I did last week, let alone three or four years ago.

It's hard to watch something you've done many years ago.

I don't even know who that person was in the '80s. I see pictures of myself from back then and I don't even recognize myself.

It's funny looking at yourself. You know how it is when you look back at old pictures? It's just funny looking back at yourself walking and talking at age 14.

I do sometimes look back at things I've written in the past, and think, 'I just don't remember being the person who wrote that.'

When I watch myself on camera, in any capacity - being interviewed, performing, 20 years ago or yesterday - there's a part of me that really doesn't grasp that it's me.

Now you watch reality TV, you watch them in all those pools or Jacuzzis and I say to myself was I that stupid? But that was me then.

I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.

I look at old photos of me, and I don't feel connected to them at all.

But I had a strong reaction to my first three albums and I struggle with them now, as an adult. It's very much the same as looking at your teenage photos in high school.

The only reason I look back is to check if I've been doing something wrong. I look at things from even three years ago and think, 'I wouldn't do that now.' Your life changes.

You don't really think about [career] much, because in a way it seems like another time and a different person.

I often don't see what I've done, or I cringe when I watch myself.

One of things I like about looking at pictures when you're young and also meeting back with old friends you haven't seen in a long time is, for me, it's a glimpse of who I was.

I struggle to watch myself in any scene, to be honest. What's done is done. I wish I was able to watch myself, as it would really help me develop as an actor. But I'm not brave enough. It's a difficult thing to do - looking at yourself as this utterly different person on a screen.

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

I look back at old photographs and videotapes, and I go, Who was I trying to be? Who was I doing this for?

That's a part of me going back to what I used to do.

Look, when I look back, from 20 onwards, I was actually having a pretty good time, I have to say.

I'm used to watching old movies of myself.

When I look back at the 1980s I pinch myself. Did I really do all that?

I see myself as most people see themselves, you have good days and bad days. I don't think I'm better looking now than I did three years ago.

I am a woman with absolutely no sense of nostalgia.

When somebody wants me to sign an old picture, it's like looking at another person.

If I see a movie on TV that I'm in, I usually will watch it for that reason: It's like I'm watching another person.