Virginia Woolf Quotes

As an actor, you can certainly, at any moment and at any time, discover 400 people who think you're stupid, fat and ugly.

I have the worst ear for criticism; even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle who says she doesn't like blue.

I'm too obsessed that the people who say critical things about me are right, even though I'm getting to do something I love.

You don't feel good about being criticised, especially when you've been loved so much.

I give credence to the worst things somebody writes about me, and if somebody writes something nice, I think they're wrong or false or lying or joking.

Part of being an artist is that you are always concerned you don't have what it takes. It... keeps us honest.

I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off.

But I'm guessing every actor is insecure.

And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.

I can't watch myself on screen without dying a little bit inside. And there are lots of moments when I think, 'What am I doing as an actor? I can't act!'

If you feel uncomfortable about something, just because you're in the public eye, it doesn't mean it doesn't hurt when people say things.

I think all my videos suck.

I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.

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 looked on IMDB, at the message boards there, and someone had posted something about a sheep having more talent than me.

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.

So far I haven't really been prominent enough to get critical attention focused on me. So, of course, I fully expect bad reviews, but I will be wracked with misery as a result.

You read glowing things and it doesn't feel deserved. You read things that are critical and it cuts you to the bone.

Actors are such an insecure breed.

I know I'm being judged, and anyone who works in the public eye will get some negativity at some point. It can be tough and it hurts. I can be very tough on myself. Occasionally, I hear or read something cruel and I'm shocked.

Most writers are vulnerable and insecure, and Kay Graham was more so than most.

I've been as critically rubbished as acclaimed and the worst thing about that is that it usually plays into your own self-criticism.

I'm a big girl, but I have a delicate constitution emotionally. If I've been humiliated in some audition, I just cry all the way home and think, 'Oh my God, I suck.'

Imagine if somebody said your nose is too big or your ears stick out. For me, it was my neck was too short. It stuck with me all my life.

I have a hard time sometimes watching my own work.