Joseph Gordon-Levitt Quotes

When I watch films or tv that I've done, I get very restless and tend to not sit still.

I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.

I don't watch the movies I'm in - ever. Sometimes I keep pictures, but that's it. I used to watch my movies, because I didn't want to be rude to the people making them, but I stopped a few years ago. I think it's pretty common among actors. It's like listening to your own voice, but multiplied by a million.

I don't watch anything I'm in. I'm too critical.

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

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

Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself.

On talk shows I ask myself, 'What am I doing here?'

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.

If I'm honest I don't think the world would miss me if I never acted again.

Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end - I never do.

I can't watch most of my work. Once I come on screen, all I can think of is 'What am I doing with my hands?' or 'Why did I lean that way?' or 'What's that look on my face?' It's too difficult to not focus on evaluating my acting.

I never really try to watch the movie of the things I've been in.

Usually when I see myself in a film or on television, there's about a six-month period where I can't look at it because all I'll see are the mistakes. I'm just appalled by the person that I see.

I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.

I think it's healthy to be insecure, to have nerves.

I don't watch my playbacks because I hate to see myself act.

I don't blame people who suspect my performance. My own mind suspects it. How can I blame them?

I don't even know if I exist offstage.

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.

I don't often see the movies I'm in; I'm usually disappointed in myself and it only serves to make me self-conscious.

I don't know; I don't really look at pictures of me when I'm in public.

I don't like watching myself on TV, I don't like reading about myself.

I'm humble 'cause I think many years ago people say, 'Well, Alibaba's terrible company'. And I know we were not that terrible. We're pretty good; we're better than people thought. But today, when people have a high expectation on you, and I start to worry and nervous because we are not good yet.