Vera Wang Quotes

I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.

I just turned 30 so I got really introspective as you do, questioning my life. And when I stopped and sort of looked back at the past decade, I realized I had done more work than I thought I had done.

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.

With 'Letters from Iwo Jima,' then 'Memories of Tomorrow,' I reached a sort of turning point in my acting. I had poured so much of myself into those movies that I really had no idea where to go from there.

I thought if I looked back and evaluated my life, it would help me in the future.

I always try to better myself with every movie I make. I don't take anything sitting back, and so I try to learn from every film I make and carry that onto the next movie because I think it's important as a filmmaker to keep growing with each film, and I think I am growing with each movie.

It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you. But figuratively speaking, I'm really into growth, so when I look in the mirror, I see somebody who's just trying to get better everyday.

I don't want to compare myself to Picasso, but he had four or five periods in his life. Any good artist grows and changes and matures.

It's more important to know your weaknesses than your strengths.

In life we try to grow and better ourselves. As an artist, I feel like I've grown tremendously.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

But let's face it, I still have to look at my self and look at the things I've done down the stretch.

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

Every job I do, I like to think it makes me better or I learn things. It's all about how much something's going to stretch me or test me.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

I have considered myself a mature actor.

I don't think I could have written what I did any earlier.

My point of view is if you want to move up, examine first yourself.

I don't look at my films or my old drawings much, so that was an interesting way to kind of reconnect with myself a bit.

I am a great admirer of other actors, but I never compete with other actors. I always compete with what I did last, and I'm my own most vicious critic. So I'm always trying to do it better.

All the time I'm changing as an artist and as a person.

I'm not good at watching myself.

I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in.

I'm always sort of reflecting on what I do on what I've done. Usually before I make a new album, I'll listen to the previous albums just to see where I've been.

I don't think much of anything I wrote before the age of 30.