Michael Caine Quotes

The key thing is you can be the only person, your own critic.

I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.

I know that I am my worst critic. I know that if I can walk away from the set at the end of the day and feel that I did the best job I could and feel proud, that's what will satisfy me.

I will always be my hardest critic. Nobody else will ever be able to come at something I do harder than I come at myself.

I try not to measure myself against other players.

Even I don't always come up to my own standards of perfection.

I'm my worst critic when I'm playing.

I'm always my hardest critic.

As long as I'm out there and getting a chance to play, I expect to do well. No one is harder on themselves than me when I do bad, and I don't plan on changing any time soon.

I put a lot of pressure on myself to be the best.

I think everyone is their harshest critic, but I strive for excellence as much as I can because I think it shows.

I'm never satisfied with what I do.

Set higher standards for you own performance than anyone around you, and it won't matter whether you have a tough boss or an easy one. It won't matter whether the competition is pushing you hard, because you'll be competing with yourself.

Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work... too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.

I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

I want to be judged harshly because that forces me to really sit down and focus.

I am a sore loser. It's not that I'm so competitive with others. But I'm competitive with myself. I like to do better than I did before.

But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.

I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.

Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don't ignore that critic but don't give it more attention than it deserves.

I think that failure by your own standards is certainly a form of success.

I think sometimes you have high expectations for people because you have high expectations for yourself.

I always say I've given 24 insufficient performances and I'm looking forward to the time in my life when I'll do something that I think is good. There's always stuff you can do better, stuff that maybe you didn't uncover enough. But if you do something that you truly believe is perfect, then that's got to be the last movie you do.

I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.

It may not be the best in someone else's eyes, but it's the best I can do.