Bryan Fuller Quotes

It's often out of my own insecurity. If I'm picky, it's for that reason. I want to be able to bring my best to the table. So if I'm not connecting to something, then I'm not gonna hold up my end of the bargain, and that's really embarrassing.

I'm very punctual. I wish I could change this about myself because most people around me are not.

I hate letting my teammates down. I know I'm not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don't feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.

If I sold something, and it didn't perform, I'd never forgive myself.

The last thing we need is to turn in on ourselves rather than face us up to what we have to do in the world.

Once you sit in front of people and start playing songs, it's all on you. No matter what happens, it's entirely your responsibility the entire time. I like that intensity.

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.

The pressure is self-imposed because I always want to do excellent work, and I always want to be interesting to people watching me.

I'm my own severest critic, and I realize when I make mistakes.

If you're going to do something, make it right and make it as good as you can. Don't waste anybody's time, especially your own.

It's human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.

I find it quite unusual for people to criticise me for doing what I consider to be my duty.

When you're holding people's attention, I feel you must give them high-quality ingredients. They deserve nothing but your best. And if they need information, get it, cross-check it, and try to be right. Do not waste their time; do not enjoy the ego trip of being onstage.

Becoming a mother has made all the difference in terms of learning to take more responsibility for myself and my life. Parenthood changed the way I do everything.

We think of the Marine Corps as a military outfit, and of course it is, but for me, the U.S. Marine Corps was a four-year crash course in character education. It taught me how to make a bed, how to do laundry, how to wake up early, how to manage my finances. These are things my community didn't teach me.

Pressure is there with any release of mine. It's more my own, as I need to surpass my own expectations.

I will always be my hardest critic. Nobody else will ever be able to come at something I do harder than I come at myself.

My opportunity, when it ever does come, I want to be ready. But my job, my role, and that's not going to change, is to be the best teammate I can be.

There's a lot of things I could've done better, and I regret not doing better. I do know I always gave it my best shot.

I always grade myself hard.

I'm definitely my worst critic. I guess that's good because it keeps you on your toes.

I'm my worst critic when I'm playing.

I have a lot of expectations on myself. That's important.

I am very demanding of myself.

I am a thinker, and I do muse over things a lot and am constantly assessing whether I am doing enough or what I should be doing more of to make sure I am not letting anyone down.