Quotes About Criticism

I've been in the entertainment industry - wresting, but the entertainment industry since 1989; if you have thin skin, you're going to have a tough time in this town, but I've got thick skin.

Unfortunately, we're in a profession, and if you've got thin skin, you're not going to last very long. So you take the good with the bad.

I had people telling me I was too big then telling me I was too thin - sometimes the same people. I learned that you couldn't win, so you can't change yourself to fit someone else's view of you.

If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

You have citizens who don't understand how government works and they're kind of soured on it. All they do is criticize. They have no idea that they can make things happen.

People gossip. People are insecure, so they talk about other people so that they won't be talked about. They point out flaws in other people to make them feel good about themselves. I think at any age or any social class, that's present.

I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.

Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.

People make the mistake of thinking they've got to perform just because someone has said something about their potential.

A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

Everyone thinks that 'Chinatown' is the best screenplay. I'm not sure it is.

The problem is that in Ireland everybody thinks you have to have a 'take' on something. But if you have a 'take' on something then that's a spoof.

He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.

I got one letter at the very beginning, like, in the first season, saying - from a woman who was very religious, very Christian, saying how wrong she thought the show was, but she thinks it's the funniest show on television.

When they say you're the best, I always remember that the majority of the audience probably thinks someone else should have gotten the award.

I used to read the criticism on blogs about other people - mostly female actresses and singers - and even when they are extremely perfect and harmless, people still go after them. So I figure, if I'm going to get negativity regardless, why do I have to worry about what somebody thinks of me?

Television has given Pakistan a truly open national forum for the first time in its history. Ideas are debated, leaders are assessed and criticised, and a nation of 170 million people is finally discovering, together, what it thinks.

I think most bands probably peak on their first album. We peaked on our third album. On the first album, I feel like I wish the production was a little better. I'll always hear a song I don't like. I look for what I could have done to make it better. It's always difficult for me to listen.

I hit the third rail. You cannot criticize Israel in this country and survive.

The third person allows characters to really attack themselves. We all do this - attack ourselves - every hour of our lives.

As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!

At the beginning, I thought, 'Oh, I can't criticize a singer who's doing a role that I adored... even a role I didn't do.' And then I thought, 'The heck with that! Thirty years of experience... ask the girl who did it!' And I feel that if they're not willing to take what I have to say, that's fine! But I'm going to say it.