Perfectionist Quotes

A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft.

Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I've always been bothered by that assumption.

The perfectionist is another name for someone who is getting ready to become mad.

If you're a perfectionist and you know you're about to do something at which you cannot be perfect, then that is daunting because you know what your heart is like and the way you approach your work.

As you all know, I'm kind of a perfectionist.

I'm definitely not very insecure, but I have perfectionist tendencies, and I'll want things to be a certain way.

Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be.

I'm a perfectionist; there's always something we need to improve upon, and I think that's a really healthy model for artistic growth and progressing. I'm not ready for a masterpiece.

I'm a perfectionist, so I can drive myself mad - and other people, too. At the same time, I think that's one of the reasons I'm successful. Because I really care about what I do.

I'm a pretty chaotic person, but I'm also a perfectionist. It's a very unfortunate mix.

I am not very good at reflecting. I am a complete perfectionist and always thinking to the next thing!

I'm not the perfectionist anymore. It's my staff. They're the ones always insisting on doing something better and better.

Most people who are deemed 'mean' are usually perfectionist who make mediocre people unhappy, cause they put more pressure on them then they can handle.

The more you know about something, the harder it becomes. You become more and more of a perfectionist. I think it's a curse... It's a form of illness!

I'm a perfectionist. I'm very critical, especially artistically.

I'm a perfectionist and if I start making changes, I'll never stop.

The computer brings out the uptight perfectionist in us - we start editing ideas before we have them.

I keep telling myself I don't practice enough to be a perfectionist. And I don't practice enough to get mad. So my temper has subdued and my attitude is subdued.

I'm not a perfectionist. I'm just very observant.

~[My daughter is] very artistic, but she's also a perfectionist. I feel a little bad: That's the part I see in her that's like me - and you don't want them to have that at age 5.~

Anorexia is a disease that happens to people, mostly women and girls, who have obsessive, perfectionist personalities.

If your ratings are high and there’s money being made, you’re allowed to be a perfectionist in television.

I'm not a perfectionist at all. I find perfectionists boring because the real creative heart is in the mess somewhere.

I'm a perfectionist... So to me, if I had my way, a song is never perfect, never finished.

I don't think I've reached perfection by any stretch of the imagination, but maybe someday I'll become a perfectionist.

I don't convey that I can be moody or a perfectionist or that I'm a nervous person, but I am all those things. It's just not going to shine through when you're posting a picture.

A lot of actors are perfectionists, besides merely being egotists.

It's one thing to be a perfectionist when you're alone, but when you're trying to make it work in an ensemble that's a whole different deal.

You should just go, go to work, work hard, be a perfectionist, be a workhorse. If you work 10 years straight, you'll be comfortable and set for life. That is a fact.

I let everyone have [the] space to do what they want, but I think I'm still a bit of a perfectionist.

Not to be such a perfectionist, it makes life hard. I'd like to be more relaxed about everything.

I'm such a perfectionist. I always feel overpraised or whatever. In the abstract, I know I'm a good person, a good professional. But it's nice to be noticed a little bit, ain't it?

I'm a perfectionist - I could rewrite forever.

I don't think that because you are a perfectionist that that makes you necessarily automatically unlikable.

I'm a perfectionist and I can kill songs because I analyze them too much. For me it takes awhile because I like to do it and then step back and listen and observe.

I have a perfectionist mentality; I want things to be right. But I've had a little duel over the years with that mentality. Because it can inhibit you.

I've always been a perfectionist, so I always wanted to sound better than I did. But, that's a never-ending process. You always want to get better. There's always room to grow.

I mean, I guess you could say I'm a bit of a perfectionist.

I'm not a perfectionist by a long shot, but self-doubt is a large part of my creative process.

My grades in high school were not very good. I was that kind of perfectionist that figured if you can't do it perfectly, why do it at all?

I loved Chiara Mastroianni voice, her talent, her generosity. We rehearsed for two months...She's a workaholic and perfectionist, like Vincent [Paronnaud] and myself.

I'm a maniacal perfectionist.

I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I want to try it again and again, and a lot of times my fellow musicians have to hold me back and say, "Nah, I think we got it."

I'm a driven perfectionist, very self-critical.

I live to collect information, and I am also a perfectionist.

If you are a real perfectionist, you can't finish any job! We, the mortals, we don't have enough time to be perfectionist! Perfectionism is the art of immortals!

If you have things and if you are a perfectionist, which I am, you have to really tend to them, and it takes energy away from other things.

'Perfectionist' is the scariest word on a studio lot.

I'm a textbook definition of that perfectionist girl who has huge expectations of herself.

I am definitely a perfectionist, and I do like things a certain way. But as I have got older, I would say that I am a little bit less of a control freak.