Don Ameche Quotes

I criticize my own work pretty harshly.

When I watch myself on-screen, I always look for the flaws.

It's very rare I'll watch anything I'm a part of and think, 'I wouldn't change a thing.'

I've criticized myself over the years.

I often don't see what I've done, or I cringe when I watch myself.

I'm never a person who likes anything I've done. It's just the way it is. Twenty years later, I can look at something I did, and I'm still thinking, 'You know, that could have been better if you had done it this way or that way.

I cannot watch my own dailies, ever. I'm my worst critic. It distracts me. I can watch it when it's done, but I'm not the girl that wants to run back and look at the performance.

Some people go to bed at night thinking, 'That was a good day.' I am one of those who worries and asks, 'How did I screw up today?'

I don't watch my movies. I just get too critical of myself.

I don't like to read reviews. Even the good ones you start to analyze: 'Oh, did I do that? I have to make sure I do that again.'

I look back on my work and I think, 'Oh, why didn't I do that differently?'

It's the first time I've seen myself act, and I can't say I'm impressed.

I hate watching myself because when I watch anything I've ever done, I realize all the ways I could have done it better.

I am my own biggest critic.

Obviously we're all our own biggest critics.

I honestly have never really even watched some other things I've done. I don't like doing that to be honest.

I'm going to tell you right now, no one is harder on me than me. The fact that fans sit there and boo me, I'm booing myself when I'm walking in.

I love any kind of recognition because as an actor I'm very hard on myself sometimes.

I know I've done good work. I've been very serious about my writing, and I've done the best that I could. But I don't feel that I've done more than I should have. In fact, I've done less than I should have.

If you ask any of the other actors, they'd probably say nice things because they're nice people, but I was always like, "Oh gosh, I hope I'm doing this right." I was very hard on myself, and I continue to be. That's why it's sometimes hard for me to digest watching myself on television. There is some pressure.

I don't pay no attention to what critics say about me, the good or the bad. The toughest critic I got is myself...and I'm too vain to play anything I think is bad.

I am very, very aware at all times. I'm watching myself, I'm listening to myself, I'm judging myself, critiquing myself all the time, and I will know when I do something and I will immediately say, "Can I do another one, because I didn't quite get that thing," or that I wanted to do something there and it didn't quite work.

When I direct and have to look at filmed scenes of myself, I suck.

Everybody is their own critic.

I don't get into that second guessing of myself publicly.