Graham Chapman Quotes

I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.

I'm probably my own harshest critic. If I get a hundred good reviews and one really bad one, it's that one out of a hundred that I remember. I think we actors are hard on ourselves, and I don't know why that is.

My parents, they were just really strict on things being perfect.

I'll be really tough on myself. Someone will be like, 'Oh that's really cool' and I'll be like, 'Yeah, but there's this one flaw.'

My first teacher... was extremely strict, mean, and deeply religious.

Oh,Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer.

I criticize my own work pretty harshly.

I am very quick to judge.

I think you have to be a little bit strict. You can't be friend and their parent in a lot of situations, especially in this day and age where it's so dangerous for kids. So there's a bit of sternness, I guess, in the way I raise my kids.

What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!

Audiences can be very judgmental.

Basically, in our society, you can never fix anything enough. The minute you get your head above water about one thing, they let you know that 12 other things about you suck. It's like playing 'Self-Esteem Whack-A-Mole.'

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

My grandfather was a very strong personality. He certainly ruled his household with an iron fist, even though it was often gloved in velvet!

Critics themselves, they used to tear me up.

I can't stand to watch anything that I'm in. I tear it apart. The worst thing you can do is leave me alone and let me watch what I'm in. It's abusive.

I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.

Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.

I think I can be an intimidating energy in the room. I think I come in with an aura of wanting results because as the playwright, I know how it goes, and there's the thought, 'Why can't they catch up?'

I do have impossibly high standards.

I'm so hard on myself and a really harsh critic of my work.

Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost.

I'm a perfectionist to a fault.

I have a strange - because there's no other way probably of describing it - uh, temper. I'm a very difficult taskmaster. I don't wait.

We're our own worst critics.