Jude Law Quotes

Every job I do, I like to think it makes me better or I learn things. It's all about how much something's going to stretch me or test me.

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.

There is nothing I've been through in my life that I regret, or that I would go back and change. I feel like everything that happened - personally and professionally - I went through for a reason, and I learned from those things.

I am very self-critical, but that's a good thing because it keeps me growing as a human being and as a musician.

I look back on my life like everybody does but not just career. I mean I look back on my life as a whole, so I don't think that I dwell there or anything and in terms of work I hope that there is a lot in front of me.

You can't focus on other people's careers. Everybody is different.

Each step of the way, I'm learning. When I leave an interview, I learn whether I feel, 'Oh, that was nice,' or that made me feel like a little piece of me was taken.

In my 20s, I was leaving university, getting married, or having a baby. And then, in my 30s, I was just keeping my head above water. When I hit 40, I thought, 'I have got to get a grip of my life and really point it in the direction I want it to go rather than just swim hard against the current.'

I have definitely had a big impactful change since 2010, and it's rough to look in the mirror, but it's such an important thing to do that.

I've had a lot of starts and stops as far as my career is concerned, but I think what I am able to do is to put things into perspective.

Throughout my career, I have criticized my every single step and I am open to any criticism.

Everybody has positives and negatives. I just want to learn and keep getting better.

Look, I'm still a goateed guy with a bunch of tattoos, but I've got a poodle and not a pit bull. I don't kick boxes and I don't scream at other people.

I evaluate myself at the end of every year.

Obviously you try to learn from the past and your mistakes and how you can become a better player as well as a better person.

It is always good to self-analyse and be self-critical. That is how I've got through so far and improved.

Having faith allows me to try to be the best person I can be.

A lot of the times, if relationships go badly, you concentrate on the negative. But in those situations, there is always a positive outcome that you can learn from. So, I like to concentrate on the lesson and how I can learn from this. I concentrate on me rather than concentrating on the actual situation.

The more I learn and grow, the more I feel fulfilled, and even if I'm shooting a commercial for a car or a computer, I try to deliver a filmmaker's point of view where I can learn from the experience. Then I really enjoy it.

Practice self-awareness, self-evaluation, and self-improvement. If we are aware that our manners - language, behavior, and actions - are measured against our values and principles, we are able to more easily embody the philosophy, leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do.

I've learned a lot from counseling and talking about the mistakes that I've made; I've understood why I made them.

I not only developed as a player in Germany but also as a person.

My defence, that is something I can better at individually.

In fact, I often accept criticism because I feel it helps me to get better and get stronger. And I hardly ever remember the compliments.

When I entered the industry, I wanted to work with good directors like Mani Ratnam and Gautam Menon; that's why I did Tamil films. I realised later that I was not adding anything to the Tamil scripts and that it was a waste of time for me.