Charlotte Rampling Quotes

Distrust your judgment the moment you can discern the shadow of a personal motive in it.

I try not to be overly analytical.

Being unbiased is a lot like being humble: as soon as you think you are, you aren’t. Neither are a finite state of being but a continuous struggle to not allow our perspectives poison our opinions.

I will not become analytical about my work.

Most people are subjective toward themselves and objective toward all others, frightfully objective sometimes--but the task is precisely to be objective toward oneself and subjective toward all others.

Self-criticism, like self-administered brain surgery, is perhaps not a good idea. Can the 'self' see the 'self' with any objectivity?

Few men survey themselves with so much severity as not to admit prejudices in their own favor.

Objectivity? I've always had an objective.

I try to be objective. I do not claim to be detached.

Thought is not what inhabits a certain conduct and gives it its meaning; rather, it is what allows one to step back from this way of acting or reacting, to present it to oneself as an object of thought and to question it as to its meaning, its conditions, and its goals. Thought is freedom in relation to what one does, the motion by which one detaches from it, establishes it as an object, and reflects on it as a problem.

Normally I don't watch myself, because I'm not very objective.

You have to attempt to be objective about yourself.

Human nature is so constituted, that all see and judge better in the affairs of other men than in their own.

I am the kind of person that takes everything as is and then look at it from the outside looking in.

I think it's important for one to take a certain distance from oneself.

I really like watching myself a lot because it gives me an opportunity to see it from outside the flesh, and when I view it like that, I can be a lot more cynical and see the things that need to be attacked.

I think by laying it out for the viewer I'm avoiding the issue of bias.

In a very straightforward way, I am a terrible reporter. I'm not someone who can go into a story and not get involved.

I didn't want to lose my subjectivity and my objectivity about my work.

Our thoughts and our feelings, of course, are not wholly objective, they're inherently subjective. And that's the danger, and I think as long as we're aware of it and can push back against it, I don't think that these two views are necessarily incompatible.

It is not the task of a reader to please her subjects.

Complete objectivity is not an option. We are all subjective about the way we respond to 'what is,' whether it's the people we encounter, the circumstances in our lives, or ourselves. What we can do is reduce our subjectivity - what I call 'I see, therefore it is.'

I don't look at my work in a critical or analytical way; I just don't think of myself objectively. It doesn't interest me.

It serves anyone, when they're going into some project, to try to distance themselves from the material so you can really have an objective viewpoint.

I think my narrative is actually pretty interesting if I step back from it and don't engage too much in it, personally or emotionally.