Stephen Malkmus Quotes

The thing I always tell my audiences all the time is that I'm just two steps ahead of you on a good day. And I might be two steps behind you on a bad day.

I'm very open and honest, and I feel like it's important for women to hear that we're not perfect; none of us are perfect. And sometimes we aspire to have these ideas in our heads of what perfection is, and I probably would've been better off if I'd left myself alone.

Nobody's perfect, and to try to pretend you're perfect is an exhausting fool's errand.

I'm not perfect.

I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model - because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I'm offstage, I'm just like everybody else.

I am someone who isn't always perfect.

Am I perfect? No. Do I want to be perfect? No, because if I were perfect, I would be a reporter.

No one is perfect, and criticism is always welcome and expected.

Am I perfect? Not at all. I'm just like everybody else.

I am not perfect. That's for sure.

I'm not perfect. I'm not polished.

I'm not a perfect person - far from it.

I have flaws, but I'm honest.

I welcome comments. I think criticism can be very constructive and can help further. I mean, there's no perfect perfection anywhere. There's no perfect picture.

Nobody likes to be judged, including me, but I am the first to say that I am far from perfect.

I don't pretend to be perfect.

Humility in this business [acting] isn't just a matter of being polite, it's kind of a matter of survival. You can't ever afford to think that you're the bee's knees, because you could always afford to be better. You have to always be searching for something better.

If you think you're perfect already, then you never will be.

I wish I could say confidently that pacing remains my weak point, if you could talk about your own stuff without sounding like you're self-obsessed. But I think you kind of have to be.

We love to receive praise, but usually we're not certain what message, precisely, we should take from it. On the other hand, when someone points out our flaws, we realize immediately that something needs to change.

I will be the first to admit I am not perfect and I make mistakes.

Everybody has parts of themselves that they're not 100% happy with - that's what makes you human. And being an actor, your job is to play human beings. Your job is to play real people.

I don't like people who hide things. We're not perfect, we all have things that people might not like to see, and I like to show my faults.

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

Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.