Quotes About Criticism

A lot of journalists like to suck up to celebrities, and then as soon as they're a safe distance away at their computers, they take shots. But that's the way society has become, especially in pop culture.

What happens when perfection isn't good enough?

Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.

I remember a time when it was ok to make fun of politicians and powerful people. Now, it's not ok anymore. We've forgotten how to laugh.

I think that Shakespeare is a s***. Absolute s***! He may have been a genius for his time, but I just can't relate to that stuff. "Thee and thous" - the guy sounds like a faggot.

I think any time anybody says something nasty about you, it's hard to deal with it.

As an actor, you can certainly, at any moment and at any time, discover 400 people who think you're stupid, fat and ugly.

I read books I hate all the time, and I don't mention them or talk about them.

I think any time you take on touchy subjects, you're going to offend some people, or you're going to please others.

The Tudors was ground-breaking in the sense that it did ruffle the feathers of classical historians and alter the way people did period drama at the time.

I always enjoy watching Republicans compliment Bill Clinton now, because at the time, I'm sure he didn't feel a lot of the love.

It's so easy to criticize your own time, and I see that as a problem, even for myself, as a listener.

I don't really read the reviews, but I remember one a long time ago I read that said that I had a face like a potato.

People say things about me all the time and I get over it. I've had some appalling things told about me.

It [the film industry] is not a glamorous industry. It's really, really hard, and you get told all the time, "You're not this, you're not that," and so you have to find a center.

If you do a joke that's really old, then what happens is people on Reddit and Twitter just go, 'Real original, you're just doing old jokes!' But bands do it all the time.

Anyone who works in the arts knows, if you're writing a novel or a play or anything, you have to be ready for someone to say, 'Your time is up.'

You can't please everyone, and trying to is the kiss of death. I don't care about Wayne Newton's demographics. When I do, I'll know that it's time to quit.

You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.

If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul.

I'm from a time and place where bigheadedness was a really savage crime, and you'd get cut down for it by your peers and parents.

It's kind of hard to find something that will get your juices flowing if you're somewhat critical. I have a hard time finding great things for myself in '94 and certainly in '95.

Managers have people second-guessing them all the time.

Funny thing happens, [Melania Trump] gets so unfairly - the things they say, I have known her for a long time, she was a very successful person, a very successful model. She did really well.