Kevin Kline Quotes

I'm never a person who likes anything I've done. It's just the way it is. Twenty years later, I can look at something I did, and I'm still thinking, 'You know, that could have been better if you had done it this way or that way.

I'm so super-critical of everything that I do.

Try really, really hard not to judge your own work too harshly.

I'm not hard on myself - I brush those things off - but there are days when I'm pleased with myself, and days when I think I have elf ears.

I'm never impressed with myself!

I don't see myself as a perfectionist.

I don't want to call myself a perfectionist, because perfection is imperfection.

I am unfortunately a perfectionist at heart, so it's really hard to allow myself to not be good.

I'm always so hard on myself.

Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be.

It sounds funny, but my biggest fear is that I'm not perfect. I'm a perfectionist, and I get upset when things go wrong or when I don't do well. I used to be very uptight, but I've learned to loosen up.

I never made a film which fully satisfied me.

I wonder, 'Why did I do that line that way?' And I also constantly think I'm fat and hate my teeth. But I've gotten better over the years. I've started to accept.

I'm so not perfect.

I don't watch my movies. I just get too critical of myself.

I do have high standards. I look at everything I have done and think, 'Why wasn't that better?' Part of my motivation is from crippling self-doubt - I have got to prove myself wrong.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.

It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.

Realize that everyone that you think is perfect feels like they're not good enough, too.

The truth of the matter is, I worry about nearly every bit I've ever done. I'm very critical of myself.

I never feel like anything I have done is perfect. I feel like there is always room for improvement.

I don't want to sound self-righteous, and I don't want to act like I have it all put together.

I've always been critical about my work. It pushes me to work harder.