Paul Giamatti Quotes

If I were somebody else looking at my character, I'd be like, "She's beautiful." I'm practicing. I'm not succeeding.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

Am I sounding better or am I just getting used to my voice?

You've got to have positives and negatives about you. I think that's a good negative, that the only thing they could say about me is my size.

I really judge me on me.

People still say I am over-confident, but I am a big critic of myself.

If you think everything you've done is great, you're probably dumb.

I don't care about people kissing my ass or telling me how great I am. I don't really give a damn. I read the bad stuff a whole lot more than I read the good stuff. I read that because there are always going to be critics who are going to say how good you aren't.

You never want to look in a mirror," Lula said. "Men love mirrors. They look at themselves doing the deed and they see Rex the Wonder Horse. Women look at themselves and think they need to renew their membership at the gym.

It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us. This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good heart whatever they might have to say.

A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.

Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves.

Hearkners, we say, seldom hear good of themselves.

It's spooky to look at yourself, because you are never quite what you think you are. And you are never as good looking as the person you are acting with, or something like that. So I learned to stay away from it because it was giving me more negative feelings than positive ones.

I hope I can improve. I'm far from perfect. Sometimes, I wonder what would happen if I fought myself. I think it would be a one-round KO. But if I was fighting myself, I know I could take my best punch. No, make that two rounds. I would knock myself out in two rounds.

As far as looking at myself on screen, I tend to pick out every single flaw that I could have or should have done better. I'm more of a cringer at first and when it is years down the road and out of my way, I can actually appreciate it somehow.

We are not greatly pleased that our friends should respect our good qualities if they venture to perceive our faults.

I try not to read about myself. Why would reading about yourself be interesting? You're only going to be told you're doing a good job and get big headed about it, or be told you're rubbish and get down in the dumps. What's the point?

Maybe sometimes I have been wrong with some movies. Anyway, I try to do my best.

I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.

If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.

I don't see myself as the perfect person at all.

Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.

What you dislike in another take care to correct in yourself.

Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.