Rachel Ward Quotes

I do not care to listen; obloquy injures my self-esteem and I am skeptical of praise.

I'm very self-critical.

I don't judge myself by what someone says.

Someone said: "I have been prejudiced against myself from my earliest childhood: hence I find some truth in all blame and some stupidity in all praise. I generally estimate praise too poorly and blame too highly.

Maybe I am just a jerk.

I have a tough time judging myself.

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.

I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise.

I looked on IMDB, at the message boards there, and someone had posted something about a sheep having more talent than me.

I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.

It's pretty easy to get sucked into a vortex of others and what their thoughts are and letting other people's judgments of you make you actually believe them about yourself. And sometimes you just need people to remind you that none of it means anything.

Imagine if somebody said your nose is too big or your ears stick out. For me, it was my neck was too short. It stuck with me all my life.

I do care about what people think about me sometimes, and sometimes it affects me in a negative way.

I've always known I was good, but if other people dont think so, it can hurt your confidence.

I wish I didn't have to validate myself by reading reviews.

When people compliment me, I don't put much meaning into them, but when they say bad things, I take them too seriously. I try to fix this mentality, but it's hard.

You don't feel good about being criticised, especially when you've been loved so much.

No one's busy thinking bad things about you. They're all too busy thinking bad things about themselves.

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.

I don't like my face. I don't like to look at it.

Hearkners, we say, seldom hear good of themselves.

I think most of us become self-critical as soon as we become self-conscious.

I criticize my own work pretty harshly.

The nature of how we are as human beings is that we're much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.