Top 100 Quotes About Perfectionist
#1. I'm not a perfectionist but I'm definitely, or well, I like discipline. I'm obedient. I'm not a perfectionist.
Natalie Portman
#2. I'm a perfectionist; there's always something we need to improve upon, and I think that's a really healthy model for artistic growth and progressing. I'm not ready for a masterpiece.
Michael Angelakos
#3. Just the other day I came across a statement: A perfectionist is a person who takes great pains, and gives even greater pains to others. And the outcome is just a miserable world!
Osho
#4. Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know.
Irvine Welsh
#5. Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose.
Chris Evert
#6. I'm not a perfectionist at all. I find perfectionists boring because the real creative heart is in the mess somewhere.
David Morrissey
#8. Just because you're perfectionist doesn't mean you're perfect.
Jack Nicholson
#9. I'm a perfectionist, so I always feel there's room for improvement.
Ludacris
#10. I'm such a perfectionist and I like to have everything just right, but at the same time I try to be as real and as genuine as I can be in my life and in my career.
Josh Turner
#11. I've got a big closet of scripts, and a big stack of scripts on the side of my desk, because you get a whole bunch. Nothing's going to be perfect, and I realize that; but I am a perfectionist, so you go through a lot of stuff.
Chris Tucker
#12. It is easy to be a moral perfectionist when one is politically unaccountable.
Robert D. Kaplan
#13. I always feel like I'm rehearsing. I'm a workaholic. But youve got to let go and trust and enjoy! I'm a real perfectionist. Its probably my biggest disadvantage. But as long as I can go out there, trust in the work and just have fun, thats what matters.
Nicole Scherzinger
#14. I let everyone have [the] space to do what they want, but I think I'm still a bit of a perfectionist.
Gustav Ejstes
#15. Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.
Dave Brubeck
#16. I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn 4 affection
Tupac Shakur
#17. I am they type of person that once I make a decision, I must execute. Maybe I am a perfectionist in this way.
Brad Dourif
#18. I am by nature a perfectionist, and I seem to have trouble allowing anything to go through in a half-perfect condition. So if I made any mistake it was in working too hard and in doing too much of it with my own hands.
Howard Hughes
#19. Tom Landry is a perfectionist. If he was married to Raquel Welch, he'd expect her to cook.
Don Meredith
#20. For me, Fitzgerald was one of the great American writers of the last century; a wordsmith, a storyteller, a perfectionist.
Robert Littell
#21. People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.
James Cameron
#23. Perfection' is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe ... If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.
David D. Burns
#24. I am a perfectionist. When I take a picture ... it's gotta be good.
Weegee
#25. I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on.
Serena Williams
#26. A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft.
Patti LaBelle
#27. The problem is I'm a perfectionist, so the producer might say he's happy with my vocal take but I'll say, 'No, it can be better.' I'll do it again and again until I feel I've got the truth out of a song.
Nicole Scherzinger
#28. I'm a perfectionist, so I can drive myself mad - and other people, too. At the same time, I think that's one of the reasons I'm successful. Because I really care about what I do.
Michelle Pfeiffer
#29. I am pretty tenacious as a perfectionist in terms of getting something right.
Garry Shandling
#30. When you write, produce, engineer and mix everything yourself, it tends to take a long time to do anything. And when you're a perfectionist little monster, it makes it even harder. But it's a blast and I wouldn't trade the opportunity for all the ice cream sandwiches in the universe.
Adam Young
#31. I'm a serious student of music, a perfectionist in the studio, and I take the arrangement and production of it very seriously, down to the mixing and mastering even. But at the same time I'm having so much fun with it. I try not to take myself so seriously.
Mayer Hawthorne
#32. I've let go of being a super perfectionist on every single note and wanting the pitch to be absolutely perfect all of the time. I grew up watching the best of the best.
Solange Knowles
#33. I'm a perfectionist and if I start making changes, I'll never stop.
Al Franken
#34. I'm a perfectionist ... So to me, if I had my way, a song is never perfect, never finished.
Dia Frampton
#35. Most people who are deemed 'mean' are usually perfectionist who make mediocre people unhappy, cause they put more pressure on them then they can handle.
Lee Clow
#36. When I work, I work. I don't think about anything else. I just wanna get the work done. And I'm a perfectionist.
Coco Lee
#37. I'm a perfectionist. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it's okay if there are flaws here and there.
Tyra Banks
#38. She had abruptly flipped from the southern belle and was now putting on the extremely businesslike air of those perfectionist women who'd only worked in the professional world for two or three years before stopping to have children and were now terrified of not being taken seriously.
Rebecca Makkai
#40. I'm a perfectionist. I can't help it, I get really upset with myself if I fail in the least.
Justin Timberlake
#43. I'm very driven by what I do. I am certainly very competitive. I like people who represent the best at what they do, and if that turns you into a perfectionist, then maybe I am.
Anna Wintour
#44. If your ratings are high and there's money being made, you're allowed to be a perfectionist in television.
Dan Harmon
#45. My mother was a high-strung perfectionist. She would check my homework for the slightest imperfection and demand that it be redone if she detected any flaws, which she invariably did. My father, in contrast, was easy going and affable and delighted in helping me with any project.
Robert Lefkowitz
#46. I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.
Rachel Zoe
#48. I'm a perfectionist in recovery. I'm trying to deal with that monster inside of me that wants to do everything right. Or better than right.
Shakira
#49. I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I'll watch myself back on 'Xtra Factor' and want to do it again because of a few hiccups.
Olly Murs
#53. I was into the music scene, but I was also a bit of a perfectionist and very hard on myself ... very dark in that way.
Janet Fitch
#54. I'm a perfectionist - I could rewrite forever.
Jenna Bush
#55. I'm a bit of a perfectionist, but you have to know you're going to make mistakes. It's how you respond to those mistakes that counts.
Sue Bird
#56. I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am.
Michael Jackson
#57. But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.
Andy Hertzfeld
#58. I had to have the record literally taken away from me. I am such a perfectionist.
Zachary Cole Smith
#59. People tell me I'm a perfectionist. They tell me I'm too extreme and that I work too hard. I tell them, that is all I know how to do. I was taught to give my best effort in everything I do and demand perfection and raise the standard of excellence to a whole new level.
Robert Cheeke
#60. I'm not a perfectionist by a long shot, but self-doubt is a large part of my creative process.
Keith Fullerton Whitman
#61. I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
Samantha Shannon
#62. I'm not a perfectionist, but I like to feel that things are done well
Cristiano Ronaldo
#64. I stress out a lot. Being a perfectionist doesn't help with that!
Ryan Newman
#65. I'm kind of a perfectionist, and it gets in the way with my putting sometimes. Golf is a messed-up game. When you feel you've figured it out is when you're going to struggle.
Camilo Villegas
#66. And I deal with all that by being like a perfectionist. But that's okay.
Jennifer Lopez
#67. I'm such a perfectionist. I always feel overpraised or whatever. In the abstract, I know I'm a good person, a good professional. But it's nice to be noticed a little bit, ain't it?
Jack Nicholson
#68. [Stanley] Kubrick was a great artist and a perfectionist. He always wanted the exact right thing. He did a million takes. Everything had to be perfect. I'm an imperfectionist. I don't really care that much about the work. I write quickly. I'm careless. I shoot carelessly.
Woody Allen
#69. 'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?
Mara Wilson
#70. I am not a perfectionist ... if you believe that your best is good enough, you will find happiness. The unknown can be exciting and full of opportunity but you have to be involved and you have to be able to evolve.
Alice Bag
#71. I loved Chiara Mastroianni voice, her talent, her generosity. We rehearsed for two months ... She's a workaholic and perfectionist, like Vincent [ Paronnaud] and myself.
Marjane Satrapi
#72. Life is not that tough if you have a perfectionist sub-ordinate; life is a bit tough when you have a perfectionist peer; life is toughest when you have a perfectionist supervisor!
Abhishek Ratna
#73. I'm a textbook definition of that perfectionist girl who has huge expectations of herself.
Rachel Zoe
#74. I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.
Dennis Quaid
#75. I'm a perfectionist, to the point of insanity.
Tom Ford
#76. I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
Barbra Streisand
#77. The trouble with being number one in the world - in anything- is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that position, and that is something of a driving, perfectionist attitude, so that once you do achieve number one, you don't relax and enjoy it.
Billie Jean King
#78. The perfectionist is another name for someone who is getting ready to become mad.
Rajneesh
#79. It's one thing to be a perfectionist when you're alone, but when you're trying to make it work in an ensemble that's a whole different deal.
George Saunders
#80. I live to collect information, and I am also a perfectionist.
Meghan O'Rourke
#81. As you all know, I'm kind of a perfectionist.
Tiger Woods
#84. There is a very thin line of difference between a Pessimist and a Perfectionist. Both are scared to fail, strive for ideal but the only think unlike in the two is- Pessimist thinks it will last forever and Perfectionist knows it won't.
Jasleen Kaur Gumber
#85. If I'm not playing well, I do get down on myself because I am a perfectionist. [So I need] someone who believes in me more than I believe in me, someone willing to work as hard as I work. I don't understand what no means or what failure means; I only understand what yes means and try again means.
Serena Williams
#86. I'm a perfectionist and I can kill songs because I analyze them too much. For me it takes awhile because I like to do it and then step back and listen and observe.
John Reuben Zappin
#87. Not to be such a perfectionist, it makes life hard. I'd like to be more relaxed about everything.
Heather Small
#88. The computer brings out the uptight perfectionist in us - we start editing ideas before we have them.
Austin Kleon
#89. I'm not the perfectionist anymore. It's my staff. They're the ones always insisting on doing something better and better.
Walt Disney
#90. Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.
Jack Nicklaus
#91. I am a perfectionist. This job is a total ego thing in a way. To be a designer and say, 'This is the way they should dress; this is the way their homes should look; this is the way the world should be.' But then, that's the goal: world domination through style.
Tom Ford
#92. Perfectionist? That's not something I am.
Mac DeMarco
#93. A perfectionist's greatest fault resides in her inability to achieve the impossible.
Diane Klammer
#94. When it comes to my art work I would say that I am a perfectionist, although my sketchbook, and my process, is a mess.
Noma Bar
#95. It's a bit of a headache being a perfectionist. You're never satisfied.
Cherie Lunghi
#96. Jim Cameron is a feisty man and a perfectionist, but also absolutely brilliant.
Kate Winslet
#97. When I was younger, before I was married and had children, I really was nit-picky, a perfectionist. I was very much into different people's approval. I had too much time on my hands, I think.
Nia Peeples
#98. Evolution is, as an engineer, an opportunist, not a perfectionist.
Stanislaw Lem
#99. If you have things and if you are a perfectionist, which I am, you have to really tend to them, and it takes energy away from other things.
Nicolas Berggruen
#100. One thing that stays the same is my passion for music. Other than that, I've become more dedicated. I think that I really work much harder than I ever did when I first started at my craft; I'm more dedicated, and I have become a perfectionist.
Natalie Cole
