Quotes About Criticism

I've taken a lot of crap. That's just the way life is. There are going to be writers who like you and writers who despise you.

There is a huge agenda behind trying to destroy me and put me down.

Obama is defining himself in a way that will destroy him.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

There are two kinds of hecklers: the destructive and constructive hecklers.

I nitpick details.

People are always going to talk down or bad about you. You can't let that stuff determine what kind of player I am going to be.

If people like something you've done - or don't like it - this shouldn't determine what you write or how you write it. Those are two separate things entirely: your work and the world's response to it.

I don't read reviews because if they're bad I'm devastated and if they're good I get a big head.

We got some devastating reviews on Animal House at the start.

Since 80% of my career has been devoted to successful commercial cinema, I have always been told that I do not know how to act.

We say less things about Australians than Australians say about us, calling me a dictator, authoritarian government.

People have called me everything. Every word in the dictionary I've been called at one point or another.

If you live for the compliments, you'll die by the criticism.

I don't mind people writing about me. Personal attacks are different, but political arguments? I'm putting myself out there on a daily basis. I'm giving my opinion. So it only makes sense that others might differ and will criticize me.

I criticize a lot of players and coaches. But I back it up with facts. A lot of times guys get mad at me because someone told them what I said. I say, 'You're wrong: Go check the tape.'

You put yourself in the public eye. You're kind of an open target.

The haters and the trolls have always used me as an excuse to make fun of something that is out of the ordinary, something that doesn't necessarily make sense to them. For whatever reason, I have always been a target that people love to attack.

Anyone who's speaking up about anything becomes a target.

I know Fox News is the target of criticism but we take it in stride. Our No. 1 goal is to be accurate.

Hillary Clinton, because she's the Democrats' presumptive 2016 front-runner, has become the target du jour. Frankly, I don't know how public figures get through it.

The thought of bringing a cake into a dance music show is a bizarre one. The idea of rafting on top of people is just as bizarre as well. And I think whenever something bizarre comes into play, it immediately becomes an easy target. And for those reasons, I know that I have been the target of criticism.

As an actor, you put yourself out there. You put yourself in the arena as an easy target.

I'm a target on and off the court. I've done some things I regret. But being a target is rough.