James Gunn Quotes

Am I sounding better or am I just getting used to my voice?

Supposedly I haven't changed.

It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us. This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good heart whatever they might have to say.

If I were somebody else looking at my character, I'd be like, "She's beautiful." I'm practicing. I'm not succeeding.

I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.

It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.

I don't think I gain anything by seeing myself.

I'm my worst critic, and I like the fact that I can listen to myself now and make fun of myself, listen, make changes - 'Oh, man, that's messed up. Okay, I need to work on that; I need to work on this.'

If we can't look at the good, bad and ugly of who we are, we are never going to progress as people - ever.

Putting myself into categories is fun, and I think it also gives me insight into my own nature. When I see myself more clearly, I can more easily see ways that I might do things differently, to make myself happier. Categories can be unhelpful, however, when they become too all-defining, or when they become an excuse.

In therapy, I see myself in the mirror differently.

I've let a lot of things go, and obviously football is one of them. I think the hardest thing to let go is your self-image. That's what I'm working on now.

Unfortunately, at the end of the day, when you watch yourself on the screen, you are always you.

Part and parcel of trying to understand and recognise your strengths and weaknesses is to be brutally honest with how you reflect on what you are yourself. I can't fundamentally change what I am.

I look at old pictures of me... and I don't feel like I'm that guy anymore, but then I look at pictures of me now, and I'm not quite sure I'm this guy.

Everybody goes home at the end of the day and looks at themselves in the mirror and sometimes they see things that they want to see that they like, and sometimes they see some things that they don't like.

Self-criticism is an art not many are qualified to practice.

What we cut off from our other faults is very often but so much added to our pride.

Self-criticism, like self-administered brain surgery, is perhaps not a good idea. Can the 'self' see the 'self' with any objectivity?

I don't laugh at me. I used to. I used to get the giggles when I'd see myself. But now, I see myself onscreen, and I sure don't laugh.

Do you ever wake up in the morning, look in the mirror and think, something's not accurate?

No matter where you go, you always see yourself in the rearview mirror.

We are not greatly pleased that our friends should respect our good qualities if they venture to perceive our faults.

I turned myself to face me, but I've never caught a glimpse of how the others must see the faker.