Quotes About Criticism

I was such a bad red-carpet host.

If children live with hostility, they learn to fight. If they live with fear, they learn to be apprehensive. If they live with criticism, they learn to condemn.

I wrote the 'Marigold Hotel' series and with the first one, people hated it in the U.K. but in America they really liked it.

I don't care what haters think - I'm proud to not stay in Trump hotels.

Too much of our media, and not just sports media, but media, in general, is one where the people with the voices live in glass houses.

Nobody believed in us. Everybody made fun of Houston basketball. I can't say I blamed 'em.

You can't imagine how hard I am on myself. Nothing pummels me like my own doubts, the feeling of how far I still have to go.

It's actually come as quite a shock to learn just how many people don't like me.

I've always felt more scrutinized. It's definitely not bullying, because you can see how much I enjoy it.

As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.

I've seen my name on marquees and bowed to standing ovations. I've also been called a fraud, a mental case, a heretic. People all over the country wait in line to hug me or curse me.

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.

People are very harsh critics of animated humans.

Acting is a humiliating job, from start to finish.

Commercial auditions can be pretty humiliating.

I want to live in Britain with a sense of humour - where there are no groups whose life choices are 'above' criticism.

When Howard Dean started saying some honest things, they hung him.

I try not to think about what people think of me. You can't, because then you get hung up in all the people who love you, and you've also got all the people who hate you, because of what you're doing.

Ancient is this [saying], O Atula, It is not just of today: They find fault in one sitting silently, They find fault in one speaking much, They find fault in one speaking moderately. No one in this world is not found at fault.

I blamed the whole mess on Charles Dickens.

There were idiots amongst them – morons. I often opened my mouth too wide and let them have it. 'My God,' I'd say to them, 'euthanasia passed you by, didn't it,' and I'd tell my wife when I got home, 'these morons got overlooked by the euthanasia.

the people believe we're indifferent to the criticism they won't take it seriously either.

Through the years I came to realize that some of the most important insights I gained about myself came not from my friends but from my critics who, while playing rough, nevertheless alerted me to blind spots and inadequacies no one else had the courage to tell me about.