Marcus Ericsson Quotes

It's easy to figure out whether you're getting stale. All you've got to do is look in the mirror and be honest with yourself.

It's more important to know your weaknesses than your strengths.

'What am I missing?' is a much more important question than 'How cool am I?'

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

I certainly am the first to acknowledge where I don't have strengths, but I think I'm pretty good at acknowledging where I do.

As an actress, I have to be objective about myself. If I don't criticize myself, there are plenty who will do a find job of it for me!

Testing of self is a regular part of our own lives, so it seems natural to make it a part of the lives of my characters, as well, albeit on a much different level.

From my training I can get a good idea of what I'm capable of.

I'm never the kind of person who's sitting at home reading the charts and basing how I feel about myself or even my career on stats. I've always based it on, 'Am I doing the best that I can do?'

I think my game measures up pretty well to myself.

A mentor long departed told me that the greatest gift in political life, in any life, is to view yourself objectively, at arm's length, to make an assessment of yourself. So whom do I rely on? I rely on myself.

I'm not so sure I 'like' to watch myself on film, but I do find it necessary in order to continually be a better artist.

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

For our improvement we need a mirror.

I have a pretty good idea of what I am not good at and have it front and centre of my consciousness every minute I am doing it.

I know my strengths and weaknesses, and I play to them.

I know what works for me.

I know when I'm good and when there are a few things I need to iron out.

I feel like interviews are the only time I actually analyze my own work.

I think how I'm playing, not who I'm playing.

Part and parcel of trying to understand and recognise your strengths and weaknesses is to be brutally honest with how you reflect on what you are yourself. I can't fundamentally change what I am.

I'm about growth for myself. So if I've made a lot of mistakes, and I haven't learnt from them, then I've failed as a human being.

Of course I am doing a good job, but you can always improve, and I just leave it up to people outside, around me or whatever, to judge on that.

The most important thing for any performer is to know your own weaknesses. It's much more important to know what you can't do than what you can do.

I've realised what my strengths are and what my strengths are not, and played accordingly.