Quotes About Criticism

Sena under the leadership of Uddhav Thackeray has failed. It is a party on the decline, and that decline started the day Maharashtra Navnirman Sena was formed.

Because I'm a former critic, I view criticism differently than most do. I can take criticism, but if you're going to eviscerate us, be specific.

When you say a 'former child star,' you may as well say 'failed child star.'

I don't take reviews seriously. I don't even read them. Who is this person blasting forth his opinion? What's his worth, and how different is he from any man on the street?

People annoy me when they say, 'Oh, you made a fortune.'

I think the reason I hadn't fought was just the aftermath of the Botha fight. You put so much into a fight, and people just talk about it like it was a bit of a farce or something.

Being in a boy band, everyone has an opinion of all of us and what we do. There was a time I fought with that.

I've fought a couple different places in the world. I love America, I'm American, but I have to say that American fans are the worst. I have to say it. They can get mad at me. I said it, and it's something they can work on.

America's founders knew the importance of allowing the people to speak critically about government actions.

Now, I don't think I'd particularly care if somebody criticised me for having got to a certain level of success because I'm Ed Fox's and Joanna David's son. I know that's not true.

Can the president really blame Fox News for his problems?

Comedy writers have the most fragile egos.

Where Democrats have a real toehold to criticize Republicans is that families still feel very financially fragile. About 2 in 5 adults would struggle to come up with $400 in an emergency.

The 'X-Men' franchise has not been a perfect one.

You can find things about me you don't like. And frankly, I don't want to hear it.

Frankly speaking, if I care what people write, whether it is positive or negative, I believe, personally, I'm on the wrong path.

I've had people say so much, that I'm a fraud. I've had people email me and say, 'You're going to die.'

Such is the impurity of our enterprise, as writers or as critics, that even in the act of proclaiming our freedom from the demands of authenticity, we are never free from brandishing it.

This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms.

It's sort of admirable that America is big enough to put up with the contemptuous self-loathing. Americans are freer than anyone in the world to say and do whatever they like, but when freedom cluelessly turns against itself, it can become a liability.

The French complain of everything, and always.

I am frequently attacked.

There's criticism, and there's calling someone a fridge.

A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.