I am harder on myself than anyone else could be.
I judge myself severely.
It's such a weird thing: to sit and look at yourself is so distracting to the psyche. It would be like me standing in front of a mirror and looking at myself all day, trying to find a flaw.
When I watch myself on-screen, I always look for the flaws.
Every brain is civilized, Every nerve is analyzed, Everything is criticized when you are in need.
I'll demand of myself and my own government what, in the past, I insisted of others.
People have judged you; you have accepted their idea without any scrutiny. And you are suffering from all kinds of people's judgments, and you are throwing those judgments on other people. And this game has become out of proportion. The whole humanity is suffering from it. If you want to get out of it, the first thing is: Don't judge yourself.
I'm the greatest critic of my work.
While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative always lies in wait, and that the more intelligent an historian is, the more tentative and self-scrutinizing the tone.
One must be truthful and honest in his approach; a constant independent inquiry and not blindly following a certain blue print laid down by others
No country has ever closely scrutinized itself visually ... I know what we could make of it if people only thought we could dare look at ourselves.
You know, I analyze my faults and my weaknesses very carefully. I'm very hypercritical of myself.
This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer.
Since Reagan there has been this tradition, which has become a cliche, of promising morning in America, this fake optimism, we're the best, the city on the hill. In fact the great American task is self-scrutiny.
I'm my own biggest critic. I'm the one who has to go home and look at myself in the mirror.
Being in ballet school and being in leotards in front of a mirror I don't know how many hours a day was quite tough.
Usually, I'm over-analyzing things that have to do with my own actions.
I put myself in a position of authority where if I get judged, I get scrutinized. So if I get caught slipping, than I have to reap the repercussions of it. That is the game I’m in and people will judge you, you just have to get over it.
Everybody is their own critic.
Whether it's a relationship or what you're wearing, or how much you weigh and what you said when you didn't mean it, like - it's hard to be totally under the microscope.
I think I'm a harder critic on myself than anybody is. I think I judge myself harder than any of the coaches do.
I critique myself way harder than anybody else could critique me.
I think body-image issues are not just a dancer thing. I think we're much more in tune and aware because the body is our instrument and art, and we stare at ourselves in a mirror all day, but I feel like it's something that every woman experiences and every girl experiences.
The most sacred cow of the press is the press itself
I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.
