Peter Dinklage Quotes

Even though I don't feel I need approval, it's still important to me to give a good performance. I'm hard on myself.

My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.

I still worry that I could be better. That's where standards come from, from not wanting to settle. The fear of not being good enough propels you.

I always wanted to be the best I could be at whatever I did. I didn't want to be the number one golfer in the world. I just wanted to be as good as I could be. I work hard, I push myself hard, and I probably even expect too much of myself.

The pressure is self-imposed because I always want to do excellent work, and I always want to be interesting to people watching me.

Good is often the enemy of best.

I am notoriously hard on myself in terms of working on new material and while I am critical of my performance on the Led Zeppelin material, I am way more critical of my own stuff. I'm pretty hard on myself.

I only scream and scratch when something's only 'really good' or 'good', I want to be great, or let's go home.

Everything I put my name to and take part in, I want to be good. That's not saying it will always happen. But I want to make bold choices.

I have very high expectations of myself. I'm a very competitive person but competitive with myself. I want to be the best that I can be and if that means that I'm eventually better than everyone else then so be it.

The best is the enemy of the good.

Everyone's set the bar really high and expects me to be brilliant.

In art the best is good enough.

I always want to be the best and if I can't, I don't want to run.

I always tried to do the best. I knew I couldn't always be the best, but I tried to be.

Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

There are always great dangers in letting the best be the enemy of the good.

I'm such a perfectionist. I want to do better and better.

If you're going to do something, you're going to do it to be the best.

I'm my hardest critic because I know what I can do and I strive to be as perfect as I can be even though I know it's not possible.

I put pressure on myself because I want to be the best player.

The problem is that we set the bar so high, and our stuff is so good, it's tough to top.

Unless I can do myself justice and play well, I'm not going to play.

The paradox of perfection is that you should try and achieve it by doing quality work even though you know you can never achieve it.