Quotes About Criticism

I think I was pretty much hated in France. The French press ignored me. There was a movement when the children of celebrities faced strong animosity.

I am very much aware that if I am getting good press at the moment I could just as easily be getting bad press. I cannot have the good and forget the bad. You have to accept it both ways.

People at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us.

People talk about footballers and they get a bad press when not all of them deserve it.

The American Jewish left gets a lot of press time. But the American Jewish right does not. And in many ways, the American Jewish right is every bit as well-organized and perhaps better funded than the American Jewish left. And they also come out with criticism.

You're only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure.

There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.

What aren't the pressures of being an actress? Don't get me wrong, I love my job. It has been my one and only dream but it's scary. There's a certain lifestyle and image one has to live up to or face the criticism which is quite harsh and cruel.

There are different pressures when you come to a club like Liverpool. You have to perform well each week, or people start to question you, and I discovered that as soon as I got here. It was a difficult time, but I hope I got stronger from coping with it.

There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.

Did you loathe and detest the Bush administration? If so, you'd probably say its ideas were horrible and their execution worse. Did you not loathe and detest the Bush administration? In that case, you might say its ideas were pretty good - only the execution often left something to be desired.

I know it's dangerous to take on bloggers. They can go after you every day, all day long, and anonymous people can chime in, too.

We make it very clear, we don't want our fans to say over-the-line things. But if someone is saying, 'I can't wait for Dave Portnoy to go out of business,' I don't care if our fans say, 'You're the worst.'

Anything can go wrong in a debate, and Obama is not a perfect debater.

I think the neoatheists have set atheism back a few decades. And I'm a self-described atheist.

If my movies are earning decent numbers, my work is being appreciated, then you might not feel it, but if something bad happens, the onus doesn't come only on actors.

You have to decide what is constructive criticism and what is just mean, because there will be a little of both.

According to one critic, my works looked like scraped billboards. I went to look at the billboards and decided that more billboards should be scraped.

Being chief selector has been the most challenging role of my cricket career, as I was heavily criticised for my decisions, and I couldn't respond much.

In 1994, the critics said I was too young, in 1998, that I couldn't cross the ball, and in 2002 that I didn't know how to defend.

I feel no compunction to defend L.A. People criticize it, and for the most part, it's well-founded.

I'm not really going to defend anyone's lyrics.

I never defended the Bush administration's spending.

Writers who do crap work believe they have turned in spun gold and all their little darlings must be defended.