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Everyone's a critic: when you are doing something good, everybody wants to bring you down, and that's something I've been told. People want to see you do good, but not too good.

I'm hard on myself. I'm my biggest critic.

I'm my own worst critic, and if I don't pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won't be a happy girl.

I'm my own severest critic, and I realize when I make mistakes.

I'm a tough critic on myself.

I operate with this sense of needing to live up to what I am asking of people. I am, by far, my own worst critic.

When people criticise you, you've got to listen to that criticism, and to learn from it, which I've tried to do.

I know that I am my worst critic. I know that if I can walk away from the set at the end of the day and feel that I did the best job I could and feel proud, that's what will satisfy me.

I don't think of myself as a critic at all. I'm a reviewer and essayist. I mainly hope to share with others my pleasure in the books and authors I write about, though sometimes I do need to cavil and point out shortcomings.