Worst Critic Quotes

#1. I'm the worst critic about music myself. I hardly ever, every like something the first time I listen to it. So I've got to put myself in other people's shoes.

Marc Martel

#2. I'm my worst critic, and I like the fact that I can listen to myself now and make fun of myself, listen, make changes - 'Oh, man, that's messed up. Okay, I need to work on that; I need to work on this.'

Mary J. Blige

#3. I'm my own worst critic, so I try and not focus on what I've done wrong, or what I could improve on.

Mandy Moore

#4. I used to be so hard on myself. So hard on myself. Just my own worst critic to the nth degree. Absolutely undermining my confidence in every moment. Bad tape in my head all the time.

Bellamy Young

#5. I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.

Adam Jones

#6. I'm not good at watching myself which I think is perfectly natural. I don't give myself a hard time about it. I am the worst critic.

Bill Nighy

#7. 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.

Allison Williams

#8. I am my own worst critic and I am hell to pay so I just have to do everything to my utmost ability.

Michael Jai White

#9. I can certainly be my own worst critic and oftentimes forget to enjoy the here and now.

Tricia Helfer

#10. Don't be your own worst critic. If you're not confident in what you're saying, no one else will be either.

Travis Bradberry

#11. I'm my own worst critic, and if I don't pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won't be a happy girl.

Amy Winehouse

#12. I cannot watch my own dailies, ever. I'm my worst critic. It distracts me. I can watch it when it's done, but I'm not the girl that wants to run back and look at the performance.

Eliza Dushku

#13. You're your worst critic, and I don't like the way I sound on the mic.

Ginuwine

#14. The criticism does not hurt because I have always been my own worst critic. I wouldn't say I don't respect other people's opinions, but my opinion is the most important.

Tony McCoy

#15. As an actor, I'm my own worst critic, but after awhile, really, when you watch 'Moonrise Kingdom', it's such a fantastic film that you sort of get sucked into the story, and then you kind of forget about everything else.

Kara Hayward

#16. I'm my own worst critic. I mean, I know what's wrong with everything that I've done.

Robert Barry

#17. When I'm writing, I'm locking myself in a room. I'm the worst critic in the world. I write something and then I beat myself up. I'm like "Vin, you're retarded, that makes no sense."

Vin Diesel

#18. Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, don't be precious about your first draft, it's an architectural blueprint to a whole building, be your own worst critic, confront your weakness and remember it's a craft.

Tobsha Learner

#19. Be your own worst critic.
When things go wrong it's tempting to shift the blame. Don't.
Accept responsibility. People will appreciate it, and you will find out what you're capable of.

Paul Arden

#20. I'm my own worst critic. I could tell the critics a thing or two about my shows.

Jennifer Saunders

#21. If you are your worst critic, don't be angry if others try to claim the title.

Faydra D. Fields

#22. As an actor, you're constantly riddled with self-doubt. You are your own worst critic.

Michelle Fairley

#23. It's crazy how every guitarist is their own worst critic in many ways.

James Young

#24. I know that I am my worst critic. I know that if I can walk away from the set at the end of the day and feel that I did the best job I could and feel proud, that's what will satisfy me.

Emmy Rossum

#25. I've never been competitive with other actors. I've been competitive with myself and I'm my own worst critic, a terrible critic I am, and unless I get something right, I feel very unhappy.

Michael Caine

#26. I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak.

Nile Rodgers

#27. When I look back, I don't have regrets. In the moment I am really, really hard on myself, I'm definitely my own worst critic and can be my own worst enemy, and I'm trying very hard not to be that.

Emma Stone

#28. Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.

Anne Lamott

#29. As a writer of criticism, the consumer thing is the least interesting thing, but as a critic, the single worst thing you can do is send a reader to waste time and money on something - even if it's something you personally love. You have to indicate the reasons why you love it and they'll hate it.

Jonathan Gold

#30. If you're not your own severest critic, you are your own worst enemy.

Jay Maisel

#31. I'm pleased to say I am here for life at Michigan State.

Tom Izzo

#32. I was never a big reader as a kid. My imagination wasn't captured by books very often. It was captured more often by boys and partying and riding horses.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

#33. The more deeply we are our true selves,
the less self is in us.

Meister Eckhart

#34. When I go to Afghanistan, I realize I've been spared, due to a random genetic lottery, by being born to people who had the means to get out. Every time I go to Afghanistan I am haunted by that.

Khaled Hosseini

#35. If there is one thing Britain should learn from the last 50 years, it is this: Europe can only get more important for us.

Tony Blair

#36. What someone doesn't want you to publish is journalism; all else is publicity.

Paul Fussell