Vinessa Shaw Quotes

You can't please everyone. When you're too focused on living up to other people's standards, you aren't spending enough time raising your own. Some people may whisper, complain and judge. But for the most part, it's all in your head. People care less about your actions than you think. Why? They have their own problems!

It's too distracting to read about yourself. You want to be perfect and you want everyone to love you, and that's never going to happen.

I don't see myself as a perfectionist.

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

Nobody's perfect, and to try to pretend you're perfect is an exhausting fool's errand.

If you can't forgive yourself, you think you're never going to be able to forgive yourself, and you repeat the same behavior.

We're all the harshest judges of ourselves.

I do not look at myself every morning and think: 'Oh, my gosh, I am so perfect, so beautiful, so talented.' No, I like to make fun of myself.

I just don't take myself as seriously anymore. But as a result of that, I am taking myself more seriously. My ego has gone on holiday, and it can't get a flight back home.

I put more pressure on myself than anybody in this world.

I'm like a recovering perfectionist. For me it's one day at a time.

I kind of learned that I am way too tough of a critic on myself and that other people are not judging me as harshly as I judge myself, so I need to give myself a break.

I go eat a sandwich for lunch and have a milk shake and miss going to the gym for 10 days, and somebody snaps a picture of me on the beach, and all of a sudden, I've lost it. Why do I need to be perfect all the time?

I don't judge myself by what someone says.

I have a perfectionist mentality; I want things to be right. But I've had a little duel over the years with that mentality. Because it can inhibit you.

And I had this big, long list of what I wanted in a guy but I realized I didn't stack up to the list myself.

I used to think I needed to have drama at all times, or I wouldn't have the fuel for the performance. Now I know that's not true. That doesn't mean I don't feel it, but I recognize it when I do and put the brakes on. And if the performance isn't what it might have been once, I've learned not to judge myself as much.

I think if I was less exigent with myself, maybe I would be more productive, because I would put less pressure on my shoulders.

I felt like I had to be, you know, perfect, which is ridiculous. Nobody's perfect.

I am not a perfectionist. Perfection doesn't exist in real life. It's a wrong title for me.

I need to learn to be happy and enjoy the achievement rather than already thinking about what I could have done better.

When I do something wrong, I take it pretty personal because I want to be perfect.

I'm my worst critic when I'm playing.

I think that I set such high standards for myself that sometimes I expect other people to live up to these standards, and it's not fair because they're not setting the same goals for themselves.

I'm going to try to put less pressure on myself, but I know how easy it is to say that rather than to feel it, but that's how it is.