Nancy McKeon Quotes

You're always going to be more judgmental about your own performance than anyone else.

I cannot watch my performance as an audience because whenever I watch anything that I am a part of, I watch critically.

Everyone has to be their own critic.

Sometimes it's difficult directing yourself on film because you can't quite separate yourself from the subject.

I would be far more critical than any reviewer could be of my own work. So I simply don't read them.

No one ever judges their own self.

When all is said, a man's final judgment of his fellows must be based upon his knowledge of himself

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

I'm my own biggest critic. I'm the one who has to go home and look at myself in the mirror.

I want to look at myself the way I do on purpose, because if you aggrandize and try to look at yourself the way a fan does or the way a reviewer does or the way - God bless them, they all got a right to, everybody's got a right to an opinion about it.

It's hard for me to measure them, or to assess my books because I'm so close to them.

Everybody is their own critic.

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

Looking in the mirror is very strange; we see only what we choose to see, good or bad.

I'm not good at watching myself.

A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.

I don't like to watch myself. I can't get into the story; I'm too critical.

A mentor long departed told me that the greatest gift in political life, in any life, is to view yourself objectively, at arm's length, to make an assessment of yourself. So whom do I rely on? I rely on myself.

I don't look at my work in a critical or analytical way; I just don't think of myself objectively. It doesn't interest me.

I've always known whether I'm great. Or not.

I do have sometimes a difficult time watching myself.

It's difficult to judge yourself.

I am not the most objective viewer of my own work. So I have different thoughts about my work.

If I play a bad game, I know I played a bad game. If I play a good game, I know I played a good game. So I don't need anyone to tell me if I did good or bad - because I know it.

I don't know if I can call myself underrated. Maybe some people may overrate me. Who knows?