Marguerite Gardiner Quotes

I'm going to tell you right now, no one is harder on me than me. The fact that fans sit there and boo me, I'm booing myself when I'm walking in.

CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work.

Maybe I am just a jerk.

I criticize my own work pretty harshly.

As an actor, you can certainly, at any moment and at any time, discover 400 people who think you're stupid, fat and ugly.

I worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.

I tend to take negative comments to heart.

Your harshest critic is always going to be yourself. Don't ignore that critic but don't give it more attention than it deserves.

I can't stand to watch anything that I'm in. I tear it apart. The worst thing you can do is leave me alone and let me watch what I'm in. It's abusive.

I don't blame people who suspect my performance. My own mind suspects it. How can I blame them?

From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.

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

I think it's the easiest thing in the world to be horribly critical about yourself.

I've been as critically rubbished as acclaimed and the worst thing about that is that it usually plays into your own self-criticism.

I'm so hard on myself and a really harsh critic of my work.

We can be so hard on ourselves. And other people can, too - there's so much criticism out there!

I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?

I know I'm my own worst critic.

We're our own worst critics.

I don't like reading good things about myself. With the criticism and the negative things, I always think that makes me better.

I was my worst critic ever.

I think, as a country, that we can be quite harsh on ourselves.

We Italians are always criticising ourselves.

I'll be really tough on myself. Someone will be like, 'Oh that's really cool' and I'll be like, 'Yeah, but there's this one flaw.'

My dad will always criticize me. He doesn't care if it hurts my feelings. If I start acting a certain way, he would be like, 'Who do you think you are?' So many people can tell me, 'You're amazing,' but I don't think it. I'm really hard on myself.