Your Own Worst Critic Quotes

#1. 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

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

Michelle Fairley

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

Nile Rodgers

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. Oh, what am I going to do with this life I have been given." I said to myself as I sat and thought about life, and how screwed up mine really was. I was brought back into reality by Colin's answer.

Nicole Eglinger

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. I don't believe in objectivity. I observe the observer's paradox every moment I'm filming. Your presence is changing everything; there's no mistaking it. And you have a responsibility.

Lucy Walker

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

Ginuwine

#11. Everybody is born good and everybody has got the same size soul. We're here to connect with that.

James Hetfield

#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. 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

#14. You have to eat oatmeal or you'll dry up. Anybody knows that.

Kay Thompson

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

Tricia Helfer

#16. 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

#17. God has so ordained and governed the Christian church that the cross has been the preparation for victory, and death the way to life. Such

John Calvin

#18. 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

#19. 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

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

Adam Jones

#21. Michael Moore announced that his next documentary film will attack the health care industry in America. He's not out to get the pharmaceutical companies. He's just looking for something to relieve the redness in the center of the country.

Argus Hamilton

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. It takes heart to be in political life.

Pat Nixon

#25. Maybe you're the one that gave me up to the Darians at Oden's Ford."
"Right," she said, staring up at the ceiling. "And then I turned around and rescued you. You know women - changeable as a day in April. Sometimes we just can't make up our minds.

Cinda Williams Chima

#26. I'm not educated about cinema or genres.

Imtiaz Ali

#27. 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

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

Robert Barry

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

Jay Maisel

#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. 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

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

Jennifer Saunders

#33. My mom blames California for me being a lesbian. Everything was fine until you moved out there. That's right, Mom, we have mandatory lesbianism in West Hollywood. The Gay Patrol busted me, and I was given seven business days to add a significant amount of flannel to my wardrobe.

Coley Sohn

#34. 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

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

Faydra D. Fields

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

James Young

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. 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

#40. If something can be explored or illuminated that would have been difficult to verbalize, that to me is what a film should be. It's like trying to explain what a piece of music is like. You can't do it.

Shane Carruth

#41. Follow your dreams and give them a try. You never know how far you can go.

Maria Teresa De Donato

#42. How much fame, money and power does a woman have to achieve on her own before you can punch her in the face?

P. J. O'Rourke