Rebecca Stead Quotes

I've never felt completely satisfied with what I've done. I tend to see things too critically. I'm trying to get over that.

I'm so super-critical of everything that I do.

I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.

I'm never impressed with myself!

I don't see myself as a perfectionist.

At the end of the day, we all look in the mirror and tend to see our own self-perceived flaws.

I am very self-critical and always will be. I think this makes me want to improve, always. But just because I'm self-critical and say what I thought of my performance in a game, it doesn't mean I will bring myself down, ever.

I'm always my worst critic.

I'm always so hard on myself.

I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.

I have always been very critical of myself and I like the people around me to be critical too.

I criticize my own work pretty harshly.

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

Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don't ignore that critic but don't give it more attention than it deserves.

If you don't second-guess yourself, then you are not trying to get better.

I always say I've given 24 insufficient performances and I'm looking forward to the time in my life when I'll do something that I think is good. There's always stuff you can do better, stuff that maybe you didn't uncover enough. But if you do something that you truly believe is perfect, then that's got to be the last movie you do.

Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming.

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.

I can't say I've ever finished a film and been particularly thrilled with myself or patted myself on the back. And maybe that's what keeps me going, and that's a good thing. It speaks volumes about how I perceive myself.

You are no better than you should be.

I am harder on myself than anyone else could be.

I'm obsessive. I want to know the answer to how good I am. Most people aren't.

I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak.

Self-esteem, the kind that comes from finding the sweet spot between a healthy fondness for yourself and healthy self-skepticism, tends to get harder to come by the older we get.

I don't watch my movies. I just get too critical of myself.