Quotes About Criticism

I don't think you can let comments affect you too much as then you are not doing your job properly.

Fame changes you and I suppose I stopped biting my lip for a while. I started to point out when people weren't doing their job properly.

Criticism is different from violence and damaging public properties.

The Democrats have no actual policy proposals of their own unless constant carping counts as a policy.

The boos and critical words from sports writers affect pros more than anyone else.

When I came to the West, I saw many, many things for the first time. But I also saw the prosperity of the West critically. It wasn't really Heaven.

I wasn't getting the responses I hoped for. You can't protect yourself from other judgments.

When something's wrong, even though you're the one doing it, you shouldn't feel defensive about it. It's hard because you have to protect yourself as a person in your life, but you can't protect yourself as an actor. You have to just take criticism.

The magic words 'on the Internet,' if inserted into nearly any sentence, seem to protect it from normal critical scrutiny.

All of those Shield guys, who came in protected, have done nothing but deliver, in my opinion, and I am a harsh critic of everyone.

When people don't like the film, I can take a bullet. I don't mind you talking about me, but I'm protective of my actors, because they bared their soul for me.

Politicians don't like tough coverage, and their protectors try to destroy the messengers.

If rock criticism is to be a political calling, which has always been my angle, that's obviously not because it's a fountainhead of protest songs.

When we were doing 'My Three Sons,' I appeared in the movie 'The Apartment.' I played a married businessman who kept a mistress on the side and treated her rather poorly. It was a good movie and a good role, and I thought it would be fun. But you should have seen the letters of protest I got over that.

As a comedian, I'm forced to have a tough skin. Until people laugh, they are detractors. You walk into a new audience where nobody knows you, they go: 'Make us laugh. Show us what you're made of. Prove why we should be listening to you.'

Could you imagine me and the roasters taking on the GOP field? It would be the greatest show ever. Prove that you can take a joke. Prove that you're a man or woman of the people. Prove that you're not above criticism even in the form of a backhanded compliment.

I've always had to prove myself to people growing up. I had to show them that I could do this and I could do that and paying no mind to what the critics said.

People can criticise all day long, I think I've proven myself, I think I deliver. And I agree, box office does not mean a movie's good, but I feel like I'm making good movies and I'm delivering in box office.

Yet censure strikes hard at women, while men, the true agents of trouble, hear no reproach.

I am reading Proust for the first time. Very poor stuff. I think he was mentally defective.

Cuando sientas deseos de criticar a alguien" -fueron sus palabras- "recuerda que no todo el mundo ha tenido las mismas oportunidades que tú tuviste.

We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their Congressmen, countries try to believe in their statesmen, but they can't. Too many voices, too much scattered, illogical ill-considered criticism.

And so we beat on, books against the critics, borne back ceaslessly into rewrites.

I've heard it said that Daisy's murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an irrelevant criticism that made it no less charming.