You Are Your Own Worst Critic Quotes

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

Michelle Fairley

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

Tricia Helfer

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

Ginuwine

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

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

Nile Rodgers

#11. 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

#12. People are so stupid. They think they've got the whole puzzle figured out, but they're really so far off.

Laurie Faria Stolarz

#13. 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

#14. 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

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

Adam Jones

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

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

James Young

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

Faydra D. Fields

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

Jennifer Saunders

#24. But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.

Dabney Coleman

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.

Fred Hoyle

#28. When you understand a species' art, you understand that species.

Timothy Zahn

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. Alive. This music rocks
me. I drive the interstate,
watch faces come and go on either
side. I am free to be sung to;
I am free to sing. This woman
can cross any line.

Joy Harjo

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

Jay Maisel

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

Robert Barry

#34. 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