Sheila Heti Quotes

I have a tough time judging myself.

I was never my favourite subject.

If I'm honest I don't think the world would miss me if I never acted again.

I'm not good at watching myself.

I see my face in the mirror and go, 'I'm a Halloween costume? That's what they think of me?'

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 can't look at the mirror beyond two minutes. I don't know what to look at. What is the point of looking at yourself? You can't change your face.

I've seen pictures of me, and I look mean and arrogant. That's how I felt on the inside. I think now, 'Is that really me?'

The horrible thing about being me is that I have a very good eye about what people look like. Even me.

Only a man who cannot conquer his deficiencies feels the need to convince the world that he has none.

The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.

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.

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

I took the world into me, rearranged it, and sent it back out as a question: "Do you like me?

I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.

I understand what it feels like not to like aspects of yourself. There have been times that I have felt really terrible about the way I look. I have the seed of that feeling.

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 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'm always trying to do the impossible to please people. It comes from not being secure in myself and not looking at the things within I have to fix. Sometimes you keep going because you don't want to face the truth.

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

It really costs me a lot emotionally to watch myself on screen. I think of myself, and feel like I'm quite young, and then I look at this old man with the baggy chins and the tired eyes and the receding hairline and all that.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that's happening to me, and some days I feel everyone's waiting for me to mess up.

I'm continually working on myself. Nothing ever actually works.

Intelligent, successful, attractive people can be intimidating. They force us to hold a mirror to ourselves; we can be disappointed, jealous or inspired toward personal growth.