Steve Erickson Quotes

I have a lot of regrets, of course I do. I should have taken that part; I should have maybe married that one, I don't know, but I didn't. So I am what I am and I'm pretty confident that I can break in. I think what I have to offer on film and on television is honest.

How easy it is to be "deep": all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws.

I don't think I have regrets.

If I had to do it over, I wouldn't change a thing.

To me, it's always interesting to see what people end up regretting, as a way maybe to avoid such regrets in your own life.

I think it's natural as you get to the end of your twenties to start thinking about what you could have done differently - whether they went well or whether they went terribly.

I've certainly had a lot of experiences in my life where I was much too self-centered.

I discovered myself!

A wonderful thing happens over time. You fall in love with the sound of your own voice.

I always call myself a recovering narcissist. I lived my life thinking everything was about me.

If I had to do it all over again, I'd probably live the same way.

I have a lot of things that I wish I had done differently given the opportunity to redo it but that would have changed everything, and I am very content with where I am today.

I really don't look at my accomplishments. I really don't think about myself much.

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

Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice.

The better you understand yourself the less cause you will find to love yourself.

Every night before I turn out the lights to sleep, I ask myself this question: Have I done everything that I can.... Have I done enough?

There's a lot of things in my past that wouldn't have necessarily been my choices but at the same time, going back in time and changing something, I wouldn't want to do that because I like where I came out.

What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.

I'm older, and I wish that a lot of things that I did in my life, I didn't do, but I'm able to talk about it.

I can say, "I don't have anything I regret!" But I can also say, "I can go forward in my life the way it is and I don't think I'll accrue any future regrets."

It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us. This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good heart whatever they might have to say.

I couldn't change anything without changing the end position, and I'm perfectly happy now. So whatever I feel in some sense may have been a mistake in the past is, in another sense, not a mistake, because it's left me here.

There is nothing else anything like so interesting to ourselves as ourselves.

She smiles at her reflection in a spoon.