Marco Asensio Quotes

I struggle with perfection.

I don't do well with expectation in my life. All I can do is do the best that I can do.

A lot of times, in the beginning of my career, I put pressure on myself just because I wanted to perform so well. I just wanted to be perfect.

When I try to be perfect, it makes me not have fun.

I want to be perfect. I don't want to fail. And you always fail.

I'm actually constantly a bit nervous because I never want to disappoint anyone, you know?

I can feel this pressure of living up to the expectations of people. I hope I can fulfill it.

Ever since I can remember, over-expectation and pressure have been my worst enemies.

I had intense anxiety, just with the acting and expectations. Am I good enough for this? This is so big. I'm on the cover of four magazines right now. Am I worthy of this? You question everything about yourself, and I did that. I put a lot of pressure on myself to make sure that I had the body and all of that.

I was nervous from the very beginning, and it got worse as the years went on. I was conscientious and wanted to do more, always, than I was able. I don't think, when I was playing, that I was ever happy - beginning at 4 o'clock any afternoon.

The relentless pursuit of perfection has been my problem over the years. It's maybe held me back.

I'm always thinking 'Don't mess this up.'

I had such high expectations of myself. I was going to be the best mother, the best housewife, the best entertainer, the best nurse, you know - what it was, I was going to be the best. And I could never live up to my expectations.

Part of me feels that I'm letting people down by not being as interesting as my books.

I'm a perfectionist. I can't help it, I get really upset with myself if I fail in the least.

Writing on assignment, with lots of money handed to you before you even began, got very scary for me. My dread of not being perfect, something I got from a childhood surrounded by powerful, successful people, began to infect everything I wrote.

Even when I had a run of successful prime-time shows, I couldn't sit down and enjoy my success. I would beat myself up and scrutinise everything. I'm a natural-born worrier.

I cannot watch my own dailies, ever. I'm my worst critic. It distracts me. I can watch it when it's done, but I'm not the girl that wants to run back and look at the performance.

Usually when I see myself in a film or on television, there's about a six-month period where I can't look at it because all I'll see are the mistakes. I'm just appalled by the person that I see.

I criticise myself an awful lot. I do worry to the point that I don't think it's very healthy. I'm always picking my flaws. It's a terrible anxiety I have. I wish I could pretend nothing fazes me, but it does.

Even now, I have traces of the good little girl. When I am not performing, for instance, I am really very quiet and ordinary.

There is such pressure on kids these days to be the best at everything.

I don't often see the movies I'm in; I'm usually disappointed in myself and it only serves to make me self-conscious.

In many ways, I think I've always overcompensated. I was always almost too careful, because I knew if anybody ever found any way to doubt my work, then they'd start picking my life apart, too.

My weakness as an actor is that I think too much.