Ileana D'Cruz Quotes

I definitely have a tendency to only see the blemishes of things, and see lots of things about my acting that I don't like.

I am highly critical of myself. I am never satisfied with my work.

I was really beating myself up about performances and how I looked and this and that.

I'm very picky, and I'm never 100% happy with the work I do; I hate watching myself and hearing my voice.

I don't very often think I've done a good job. I don't like the majority of what I do. I shouldn't say I don't like it, but I'm not satisfied with almost everything that I do.

I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws.

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'm never happy with my performance.

I'm a perfectionist, and I very rarely satisfy myself when I come in and watch the film the next day.

I really dislike watching myself on screen. I am very insecure about my acting. We are our own biggest critics. I have to sit in another room to my parents when they watch it.

If you ask any of the other actors, they'd probably say nice things because they're nice people, but I was always like, "Oh gosh, I hope I'm doing this right." I was very hard on myself, and I continue to be. That's why it's sometimes hard for me to digest watching myself on television. There is some pressure.

I often don't see what I've done, or I cringe when I watch myself.

I criticize my own work pretty harshly.

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

I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.

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!'

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'm so critical of my own work that it's difficult for me to disassociate myself and watch it as an audience.

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

When you doubt one thing about yourself, you start thinking there's also something wrong with your hair, your body, your clothes, your accent.

Some people go to bed at night thinking, 'That was a good day.' I am one of those who worries and asks, 'How did I screw up today?'

I don't think I am any good. If I thought I was any good, I wouldn't be.

I don't blame people who suspect my performance. My own mind suspects it. How can I blame them?

I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.

I do have high standards. I look at everything I have done and think, 'Why wasn't that better?' Part of my motivation is from crippling self-doubt - I have got to prove myself wrong.