Lorrie Moore Quotes

I don't always like my own behavior. I haven't known anyone who is perfect all the time.

I too have my own demons, and I have struggled. I've made my own mistakes, and I'm not proud of them.

I think I've been an incredible example to my kids of what not to do.

Everybody is probably guilty of something. I'm sure that if anyone looked into my heart long enough, they could say, you know, 'Bill had some unkind thoughts back in second grade.'

I am a man of many flaws and contradictions.

I'm pretty self-aware, and I am an embarrassingly flawed human being in a ton of ways.

I think we've all done things that are a detriment to ourselves, and we've all made good choices that have brought good things for us.

I've heard that our greatest cross to carry is ourselves - how gravely we fall short.

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

The director calmed me down and told me I was being too hard on myself. He went on to say that I wasn't quite as bad as I thought, but needed to tone things down a bit.

I just have to be myself. I'm not perfect, and I'm going to make mistakes; I might say the wrong thing. I have to be responsible to my community, and I feel like I am, but then I have to not be so hard on myself.

No one is perfect and everyone wishes they could change something about themselves.

I know I've done good things, I know I've done bad things.

The selfish thing about an athlete is you always look at the side of things where you say I could've done that better.

I think people assume I'm perfect. I'm not. I make mistakes. I do things I regret. I'm stubborn.

I don't see in myself any perfection.

I see myself out of my own eyes, which means I have no idea what's going on the other way around. I just think I try to be a good person - and I fail.

I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.

If I were to say at any point that I feel really confident or really in control, that would be a mistake. Because I don't. I always see where I didn't do things the right way.

I am not as bad as people would suggest. Not as good as I would like to be.

I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.

Shakespeare had found language for the agony of living with one's own mistakes. There were words for finding yourself isolated with your failures. Phrases for discovering that you were wrong, all, all wrong, wrong, wrong.

I'm hard on myself, like, 'Oh, why did you say that?' But it helps me grow.

I have a whole phone book of fallibility about myself.