Charlie Brooker Quotes

I promote my own self-hatred.

Self-depreciation is a disease. Once it gets a hold on us - good-bye!

I think the main thing I remembered throughout all of filming it was just that she just was extremely self-destructive. I think everybody can relate to that a little bit. She doesn't like herself.

I've always been the biggest bully to myself.

I have trouble keeping a lid on the self-hatred.

I had a routine of waking up, going on Twitter, searching for the worst things I could about myself.

I got into the habit of filtering out all the good in my life, focusing on only the negative. I'm not sure why I did it, but it's a pretty depressing state.

My feelings about myself have been terrible.

I wake up some mornings hating me too.

Most of the worst things said about me, I've said myself.

I'm horribly self-critical.

The third person allows characters to really attack themselves. We all do this - attack ourselves - every hour of our lives.

Like a lot of people, I've got a self-loathing streak that's alive and well. It acts as a de facto engine when I'm working, but it also has its extraordinary pitfalls, too.

I think I'm really quite horrible to myself in many ways.

I was just unhappy - and lonely at times. There was always that other side of me nagging away, bringing me down. The anger. Even after good games, I just went home and looked at the bad points. It was just nuts.

Sometimes you're your own worst critic.

I'm not a suicidal person at all, but on paper it seems that I am. I think I'm really quite horrible to myself in many ways. You always think it's going to be fine, the body will repair itself. There will be another chance. But I'm 33 now. The body won't keep repairing itself. You know when you can flick a coin and catch it on your elbow, and flick it up and catch it on the back of your head? And then you can't even catch it with two hands any more. You realise something is wrong.

I managed to reach a depth of self-loathing that usually takes a night of drinking to achieve.

I don't hate myself, as a general rule. I'd say the best way to describe it is that I have moments of self-loathing at fairly regular intervals.

I'm very hard on myself and I have too many issues.

I used to refer to myself as a 'theoretical anorexic,' just as crazy when it came to body image, but saved by a lack of self-discipline. My daughters do everything better than I do - they're smarter, more beautiful, happier. What if they end up better at anorexia, too?

Well, I always think the worst things are going to happen here, because I'm - basically inside, I'm a bad person, and so the bad kind of takes over.

I have no idea where my pathetic nature comes from. If I thought about it too long, it would depress me.

People talk about bullying, but you can be your own bully in some ways. You can be the person who is standing in the way of your success, and that was the case for me.

I've had moments of deep self-involvement that didn't come from a place of loving myself but quite the opposite.