Critical Self Quotes

The key thing is you can be the only person, your own critic.

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.

Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work... too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.

I'm definitely a perfectionist. I started entertaining so young. I think, naturally, my personality is that of a perfectionist, and then on top of that, growing up in the industry, I became very objective and analytical of myself early on, and I find myself doing that in everything.

Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or another, but at the heart of it all, every time I made a mistake it was because I was not radical enough.

Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder.

I have only an appetite for masochistic truth, and only box-office collection figures interest me.

We have to be self-critical even in context that we might be critical of, even as we - our pieces appear in it.

I am struck by how quickly I am prone to judgmentalism.

The best use one can make of his mind is to distrust it.

Perfectionism attaches to what is valued in the culture.

Everybody is their own critic.

In general, I agree with Socrates that what democracies badly need is the examined life, and we need to think critically about ourselves.

A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.

I'm usually a fairly harsh critic. It depends. I tend to really not watch my work, because I just feel uncomfortable, and I can be highly critical.

I have a hard time sometimes watching my own work.

I'm kind of harsher than most people.

The most dangerous error is failure to recognize our own tendency to error.

You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun? He said he had the solution and then destroyed the French Army until it mutinied.

Watching films I'm in is always a bit odd, especially when I'm watching them for the first time with other people. It's hard not to see my faults.

We're all the harshest judges of ourselves.

Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the best of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves.

You ever try to go a day without judgment?

I operate with this sense of needing to live up to what I am asking of people. I am, by far, my own worst critic.