Rupert Friend Quotes

I'm not hard on myself - I brush those things off - but there are days when I'm pleased with myself, and days when I think I have elf ears.

I don't always have to be the best. Things don't always have to be perfect.

by then I'd figured out the gift of failure, which is that it breaks through all that held breath and isometric tension about needing to look good: it's the gift of feeling floppier.

I'm not worried any more about changing people's view of me.

I know I'm not perfect.

I think self-deprecation is such a disease, and I want to cure everybody of it and so that's my contribution.

I gave up shame a long time ago.

I make mistakes. I say stupid things. I do idiotic things. And, quite frankly, I'm proud of them. Why not make mistakes?

Once you accept that we're all imperfect, it's the most liberating thing in the world. Then you can go around making mistakes and saying the wrong thing and tripping over on the street and all that and not feel worried.

This is who I am. I'm not perfect. I don't want to try to be perfect.

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

I used to feel like I had to be the best at what I did, but I realized I don't have to be the best. It's so freeing. I've never been this happy.

I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I'm not afraid of my flaws.

The way I approach my insecurities is by making sure I'm the first person laughing at myself.

I'm learning to let go of the idea of trying to be perfect.

One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.

I’m not perfect and I don’t have to be.

I never think I have to prove something.

I've learned that it's OK to be flawed.

I'd like to just be a little bit more open to making mistakes and not worrying about it so much.

The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.

Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.

I am not super-ambitious. I am not a classically amazing singer or anything.

You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.

I discovered that the world frightens you with your shortcomings, but if you do not worry about it, you are liberated.