Chris Martin Quotes

A face in the picture would bother me, so I'd rub it out with the turpentine and do it over.

You can never really judge your work because once it's done, it's done.

You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are the flaws, what you would do differently.

I never feel like anything I have done is perfect. I feel like there is always room for improvement.

There are certainly things in live broadcasts that I've done that I wish I could have gone back to edit and make better. It's hard, because you want it to be perfect, and it just isn't. Even in the edited ones, it's not everything you want it to be - but it's closer.

I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws.

I've never been super confident about anything. The work is never as good as it could be.

I never made a film which fully satisfied me.

Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped.

To be honest, I rewrote 'Wicked Nights' a number of times. I just wasn't happy with the end result.

Nothing is ever enough for me. I'm always thinking what is wrong, what needs to be fixed.

One of the big songwriting things for me has always been: always think what you do sucks. Because the second you stop believing that, you suck. And that's a fact.

I'm a perfectionist, so I always feel there's room for improvement.

It's difficult to have everybody like everything you do. I don't know anybody that's perfect and doesn't have a zit somewhere.

I'm not suggesting that the play is without fault; all of my plays are imperfect, I'm rather happy to say-it leaves me something to do.

I know all the critics.

There's something delicious about finding fault with something. And that can be including finding fault with one's self, you know?

I don't have a single complete show or movie or anything else that I could look at and say, 'Nailed that one.' But endless dissatisfaction is, I suppose, what gets us out of bed in the morning.

When I watch myself on-screen, I always look for the flaws.

First drafts are never any good - at least, mine aren't.

I don't like to watch my work after I do it because it just - I'll always look at the wrong things.

It's really difficult for me to sit and watch anything that I do because I always think about what's there, and what there could be to make it even better.

By the time I'm done with a project, it's taken so long that I usually don't even like it anymore. I only see the things I wish I'd done differently.

All actors are self-critical.

Whenever people say nice things to me, I think they're just saying them because I'm standing right in front of them. Even when I read articles that say good things about me, I forget about them right away. When I read about people pointing out my flaws, however, I think about them a lot.