Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
Italy to me is like the mean mother. Whatever I do, it's never good enough. People say I'm the queen of Cannes, but in Italy I get turned down for work.
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
Nobody smolders in real life.
Some people strive for perfection, but I often find perfection boring.
I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don't say that disrespectfully, but they've been shown a God that you can't measure up to.
It's impossible to fail completely and it's impossible to succeed perfectly.
The thing with perfection is that it's never perfect.
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.
The problem with people is that no matter how good you are at what you do, it's never enough for them. There will always be someone to point out some flaw. Someone will always find something lacking in you.
There's really no way to be perfect. Perfectionism is a silly trait to have, so in a lot of ways that inspired the world of 'Divergent,' in which everyone is striving toward that ideal and falling short of it.
When I'm tough on myself, I'm never satisfied.
The problem is that we set the bar so high, and our stuff is so good, it's tough to top.
In Hollywood, you still have wonderful actors, but it's so hard to work there. To work becomes a Kafka nightmare - it's the last communist country!
With every job I watch, I can't find peace with what I've done. It's never good enough in my mind. I will never be happy if I'm in that mindset, unless I get a review that starts: 'Once in a generation.'
There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying.
I'll never be on the level of my idols.
Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other.
Sometimes it seemed like it was never good enough, no matter what I did.
I've always been like this - insecure - because I'm striving for something that can't be attained. I don't just want to be OK at this: I want to be the best at it, and I've never achieved that in my mind.
You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect.
Perfection is impossible, but you don't stop aiming for it.
If you strive toward the perfect run, accepting that you will always come up short of that is very intriguing. It makes me think about how in life in general, we always want to strive toward perfection, but sometimes perfection would be the worst thing.
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
Life does not measure up to performing... Performing is perfect.
