Rufus Wainwright Quotes

It's harder to put yourself in a place where you could easily be seen as a fake. But that's more interesting to me.

Sometimes I test myself saying, 'If I get a death sentence if I don't make this movie, would I still make this movie?'

Well, I always think the worst things are going to happen here, because I'm - basically inside, I'm a bad person, and so the bad kind of takes over.

When I'm writing a new play, there's a period where I know I shouldn't be out in public much. I imagine most people who create go through something like this. You willfully loosen some of the inner straps that hold your core together.

I'm afraid of me.

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

As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; you're on permanent trial.

I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.

I can't watch myself on screen without dying a little bit inside. And there are lots of moments when I think, 'What am I doing as an actor? I can't act!'

I'm very low-maintenance, and that is a problem. I'm not demanding at all, and sometimes I feel that I should be throwing tantrums. But since I don't party or socialise, and am very low-key, I think that makes me very low-maintenance. Actually, I'm the most boring person at a party.

I'm too obsessed that the people who say critical things about me are right, even though I'm getting to do something I love.

When I first started doing sketch comedy, I promised myself that if I were ever to have any success in this business, I wouldn't hold back. Why get there and play it safe?

I obviously bring all of my insecurities along with me to any role that I tackle.

When I look in the mirror, I never see a handsome chap or the person people think I am.

You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.

I'll probably never put out another album because I'm a tough critic of my work, and I don't think I could come up to those standards any more.

I can only see my limitations. That's just who I am.

I'm my own worst enemy and I know that.

I ended up becoming so self-conscious that my songs stopped being about my life and started being about what people thought of my music. And that was really bad.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

It used to be that I was always paranoid or a loser or something so there's usually something that you seem to associate yourself with at one time or another.

The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

When I'm left on my own I'm my own worst enemy.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.