Julie Ann Emery Quotes

More than comparing with somebody else, I'd prefer comparing my own work from film to film.

I feel like interviews are the only time I actually analyze my own work.

I think how I'm playing, not who I'm playing.

At the end of each day, you should play back the tapes of your performance. The results should either applaud you or prod you.

But you have to look at your work with an honest critical eye. Work on the things that you need work on. Scare yourself. Surprise yourself. If you don't like the way it's going, you have complete control over changing the course. That's one of the best things about doing this.

I really don't like watching myself and for the most part I will never watch myself. I worked with Kevin Smith on Yoga Hosers and I really respected the way that he directed. He told me, "It's very important to watch yourself." So he would direct by going, "Hey come over to the screen and watch this scene." And so it was very uncomfortable for me to have to watch myself but then he talked me through the process of that and it was very helpful.

It's easy to figure out whether you're getting stale. All you've got to do is look in the mirror and be honest with yourself.

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

I don't like to come at my character from some really technical place.

I always say I've given 24 insufficient performances and I'm looking forward to the time in my life when I'll do something that I think is good. There's always stuff you can do better, stuff that maybe you didn't uncover enough. But if you do something that you truly believe is perfect, then that's got to be the last movie you do.

There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.

Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.

I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better. I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

Not to be narcissistic, but I truly believe in order to make yourself better, you should see what you did before and what was good about that and what wasn't - same way a football team plays a game and then they go back and watch film.

As an actress, I have to be objective about myself. If I don't criticize myself, there are plenty who will do a find job of it for me!

I tried to draw people more realistically, but the figure I neglected to update was myself.

It doesn't matter to me if I'm in love with my performance, so I watch all of my performances to understand and learn from them and figure out what's working and what's not. And I see the movies that I'm in in the theater a lot.

I don't find it hard to direct myself. I can easily think of me as a horrible performer or a good performer. I work with actors who cannot stand watching or looking at themselves, which is not my case. I can have an eye and perspective on whether I'm terrible or good enough for me.

I think my game measures up pretty well to myself.

A mentor long departed told me that the greatest gift in political life, in any life, is to view yourself objectively, at arm's length, to make an assessment of yourself. So whom do I rely on? I rely on myself.

Actually, my character needs to be questioned. On a regular basis. By people who know and love me.

For our improvement we need a mirror.

The biggest thing is I watch myself: What I need to improve on, what I can do different.

I always look at myself as kind of a work in progress. I hope that's not always the case. But for me, every film is a learning experience.

I usually do watch what I've done because I think it's important. I think you can learn from it and see what you thought you were doing and what ends up on the screen.