Andrew Haigh Quotes

When I say I don't like my own work, that doesn't mean it isn't better than everyone else's.

I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.

Whenever people say nice things to me, I think they're just saying them because I'm standing right in front of them. Even when I read articles that say good things about me, I forget about them right away. When I read about people pointing out my flaws, however, I think about them a lot.

If you start doubting yourself like that, thinking, 'Am I good enough?' - maybe there is a reason you're thinking that.

I've always been a bit of a self-doubter. I think a lot of actors are.

I'm so critical of my own work that it's difficult for me to disassociate myself and watch it as an audience.

The word that I constantly hear out of women is 'fear.' It's almost like a background melody. Women have excellent degrees and experience, but we are afraid we aren't good enough because we have such high expectations.

All artists have insecurity.

When you doubt one thing about yourself, you start thinking there's also something wrong with your hair, your body, your clothes, your accent.

Usually when I see myself in a film or on television, there's about a six-month period where I can't look at it because all I'll see are the mistakes. I'm just appalled by the person that I see.

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

I've always wanted to do a photo book, but I've never done one because I've never felt ready; I just didn't feel my work was good enough.

I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.

I definitely have a tendency to only see the blemishes of things, and see lots of things about my acting that I don't like.

For some reason, all artists have self-esteem issues.

You just can't spend any time second-guessing yourself.

Overconfidence has never been my problem.

If you are objective enough to say: 'I could have done this, this and that's,' all the other critics and all the other voices are really not important and don't exist anymore.

What makes anyone think that I'm any good?

I have never been 100% confident that I am right about anything.

Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in all praise. I generally estimate praise too poorly and blame too highly.

Every single time I step into the studio, I say, 'Can I still do this? Do I still have it? Have I ever had it?' I suppose there's a good amount of self-loathing that goes into any form of artisanship.

I criticize my own work pretty harshly.

I've never been super confident about anything. The work is never as good as it could be.

I don't get into that second guessing of myself publicly.