Imelda Staunton Quotes

I do my best, and that's all I can do.

All you can do is the best you can do.

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

Perfection is impossible; just strive to do your best.

I'm not perfect, but I do my best.

I'm a guy who expects a lot from himself.

I sort of set myself really high standards which is good and bad. If I know that I've done all I can to prepare, that's when I race the best and in '09 I was going through a lot of emotional ups and downs and I was never as fit as I would have liked to have been. So I never felt comfortable.

You've just got to do the best that you can.

We are all failures – at least, all the best of us are.

Just do your best. I find that if I set that goal for myself and no one else, I feel good.

I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good. Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.

As long as you gave it your best shot, even if in the opinion of others 'you failed,' you didn't fail.

I just try to do my best and make the best judgments I can.

I'm not that in control of myself that I could be specific about exactly the way I'm doing everything as it happens. I'm just trying my best.

But I think it is always difficult to have high expectations of yourself or anyone else.

I think that failure by your own standards is certainly a form of success.

As long as I give the best performance I can give, I know I can't do any more.

I stand by every decision I've made throughout my career and my life, good or bad, up or down.

My father always said, 'Do your best and piss on the rest.' And I think there's a lot of truth to that, because if you've done your best, there's not a hell of a lot more you can do about something.

My life motto is 'Do my best, so that I can't blame myself for anything.'

I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

Look, you do the bloody well best you can. You fumble. You make mistakes.

We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.

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.

I'm a textbook definition of that perfectionist girl who has huge expectations of herself.