As an actor, it easy to be so self-critical, saying to yourself, 'Am I good enough? Am I good looking enough? Am I smart enough?'
I always get nervous when I watch what I'm in. Very self-critical.
Marxism is always open, always critical, always self-critical.
I am very self-critical, but that's a good thing because it keeps me growing as a human being and as a musician.
I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.
I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed; but to also be able to get off those perches and out of those ivory towers and speak to the real people who make decisions; to speak truth to power and the powerless with lucidity and eloquence.
There's an appeal to the American sense of exceptionalism, that we're morally superior, as way to not be self-critical. I think that's a bit dangerous.
Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.
It is only through the opposition of ideas that we can learn to be self-critical, to work towards intellectual humility.
I'm extremely self-critical. Although I try not to be ridiculous about it, wearing horsehair shirts and all that. It's a private exercise I don't necessarily share with other people.