Truman Capote Quotes

Usually, with the work I've done, by the end, I usually feel like it's a failure. It doesn't matter how it's received.

I felt that some of my work was OK. If I could do it over, I'd do better.

I'm never really happy with anything I do.

I don't like being bad at anything.

I'm uncommonly slow to show my work to other people, and by the time I do I've usually exhausted myself so completely that all I really want is for someone to tell me that my efforts have added up to something - not one of my better qualities, I admit.

Most of the stuff I do is garbage.

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

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

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.

I never like photos of myself in the beginning. I live with them for three months, put them in a drawer, take them out and look again. I hate the way I look, but of course it's really not that bad.

I never made a good movie.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.

Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star of his own Halloween special.

I think all my videos suck.

I've got this horrible feeling that I'm one of those people who'll always have to flog their guts out to get anywhere.

My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.

I never fail to feel let down when I see myself on the screen.

I was the kid who never won the races... I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don't always feel like I'm a success. That's right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I've just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I'm trying to communicate with.

I feel overestimated.

I can never tell if anything I do is really good. I'm always just slightly chagrined.

I hate all of my own matches. I hate all of my own work. I am my worst critic.

I was playing and having a lot of success, but I also felt a lot of criticism behind it. I didn't know why.

It's always my biggest insecurity - disappointing myself or my partner.