Christina Quotes

There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind.

I think at times I read too much of my own press. I wish I was better at taking in how great my life is, but that's surprisingly elusive. I tend to be very hard on myself and insecure about failing no matter what happens.

Everything I do and say and the way I do and say it annoys me.

I don't like having my picture taken and I don't like looking at myself because I don't particularly like what I see.

CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work.

She realized all at once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it so little.

The problem with me in doing things simply is that I feel I'm not enough. It's all very embarrassing.

When you're an actor, seeing yourself for the first time, you spend all your time just watching yourself and hating yourself and picking your performance apart. You say, "I look horrible. I should quit."

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.

I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who ski better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.

I always see something for sure one time and then I make myself see it a second time. Because second time is like, 'OK, I'm not that bad. I'm not that horrible.' But the first time I just think I'm god-awful.

I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles and words of those to whom I’d tried to be frank, interpreted everything in a bad light, laughed viciously at my attempts ‘to be like the rest’ –and suddenly, in the midst of my laughing, I’d give way to sadness, fall into ludicrous despondency and once again start the whole process all over again – in short, I went round and round like a squirrel on a wheel.

There have been a few moments when I have known complete satisfaction, but only a few. I have rarely been free from the disturbing realization that my playing might have been better.

On the one hand, I have wanted to supply documentation on myself by including material relevant to my emotions and ideas in my youth; and, on the other, not to let myself down by publishing inferior material. My poetry comes under the latter head. My only advice to the reader is to skip any verse that he sees coming.

Either still I find Some imperfection in the chosen theme, Or see of absolute accomplishment Much wanting, so much wanting, in myself, That I recoil and droop, and seek repose In listlessness from vain perplexity, Unprofitably travelling towards the grave.

My toughest enemy is in the mirror - would you look at that.

I'll run through things over and over and over again in my head and think, "How could I have done that better?" Silly things like that.

There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast.

You're your worst critic, and I don't like the way I sound on the mic.

It's not terrible, people telling you you're great; what's terrible is when you start believing it.

Sometimes I even amaze myself, and sometimes I do things that make me want to punch myself in the face.

Though not always called upon to condemn ourselves, it is always safe to suspect ourselves.

When you present something that you have worked on to somebody else, for some reason that is the moment when you can see everything that you have done wrong. They may or may not agree, but it is more of a personal thing for me. It is that I am looking at it because you are self conscious and suddenly there is someone in the room that is seeing it for the first time.

I'm a serial deconstructor of my own authority in certain areas.

I don't love everything I do, and I don't always like how I am in it. I'm not always pleased.