Laurie Metcalf Quotes

I look back on my work and I think, 'Oh, why didn't I do that differently?'

There's always something that you go 'I should've done this better, I would've done that.'

Something good happens or something bad, I think, 'What can I do better? What didn't I do this year?'

There's no doubt that probably at least once a week, maybe once a day, I said, "Ah, I should have done that better."

I don't much like to look back with the idea that I was doing it wrong then or I'm doing it wrong now.

I question every move. I'm constantly second-guessing myself.

I'm never a person who likes anything I've done. It's just the way it is. Twenty years later, I can look at something I did, and I'm still thinking, 'You know, that could have been better if you had done it this way or that way.

The selfish thing about an athlete is you always look at the side of things where you say I could've done that better.

I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.

I'd be lying if I didn't say there were days when I went back and said, 'I wish I'd done this. I should have done that. I handled this the wrong way.' But it's always in the motivation of getting better. I've never once looked in the mirror and said, 'Oh boy, can't do this one.'

When I watch myself on-screen, I always look for the flaws.

I felt that some of my work was OK. If I could do it over, I'd do better.

Yes, once—many, many years ago. I thought I had made a wrong decision. Of course, it turned out that I ha been right all along. But I was wrong to have thought I was wrong.

Where I Was Wrong

I'm not a big believer in second-guessing decisions.

I wouldn't say I regret anything. I would say I just wish I did things better.

I hate watching myself because when I watch anything I've ever done, I realize all the ways I could have done it better.

Tours always leave us some regrets and thoughts that we could have done better and should have done better.

I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.

I'll run through things over and over and over again in my head and think, "How could I have done that better?" Silly things like that.

I've learned so much from all my mistakes. I just wish I had gotten my education.

I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.

I wish I could do a lot of things different. I'm not going to tell you what they are, but if I had a list of all my films right now, I'd go, 'Okay, I'll cross that one out and cross that one out and cross that one out and cross that one out.' Really. But I've made over 40 films. How can I not have some losers in there?

I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.