Quotes About Criticism

If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.

Trash my acting and my films. But don't gossip about my personal life.

There are people that said I will not be as good as my father, that I am trash, and asked why I am playing for the U.S.A. You know, that is just pushing me to be the star that my country has been looking for.

I'm not perfect. Show me somebody that hasn't talked trash about somebody and put it on Facebook.

The Republicans ought to be nowhere near trying to help Obama save his bacon. But they don't think that's what they're doing, I'm convinced. You talk about trauma and the need for therapy, I really think that the Republicans have been genuinely psychologically traumatized by decades of media criticism.

The President's political travel is going to get blamed (and probably rightly) for a share of this downturn.

We travellers are in very hard circumstances. If we say nothing but what has been said before us, we are dull and have observed nothing. If we tell anything new, we are laughed at as fabulous and romantic.

You have to tread lightly with stan culture.

I'm not saying that President Obama should be exempt from criticism, nor do I believe it is some act of racial treason for a black person to hold our president accountable for his actions.

Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.

After I left Treasury, I think in some ways it was harder to sit there and be writing my book... listening to all the criticism.

The media is going to treat you good one day and bad the next day.

John Howard Davies was not a very human person... if you made a mistake of any kind, any sort of pause in speech, he would treat you rather as if he was a schoolmaster.

You look at Cheney, Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, and Bush - if you saw them on Halloween, they wouldn't need a costume. You'd give them a treat and compliment them on what great-looking demons they were. They are demons. There's no doubt about it.

People who criticize power in the Jewish community are regarded the way Ahab treated Elijah: You're a traitor.

I think women don't grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more sensitively treated, and when you first experience the world of film-making you have to develop a very tough skin.

I've often said there's no such thing as a track record in TV. I seen people who created things much more successful than mine treated like dirt.

A word on 'Kingdom of Heaven:' if you get the four-disc set, which is 3 hr. 8 min., you'll see why it's such a good movie. It was a real passion project, and it's the film I'm most proud of. I think it was treated incredibly unfairly.

I don't want to criticise my country, but there are times I feel Sting and myself have been treated unkindly.

Anyone thinking me treating myself affects my snooker doesn't know what they're talking about.

When you become successful, half the population puts you on a pedestal, and half the population treats you with less respect than you would have got if you were collecting their bins.

Determining the value of individual texts has been an ideological scuffle in literary criticism for centuries: but the environmental cost of printing them hauls this dispute from the ivory tower into day-to-day decision-making. Is it right to write? The publishing industry is slowly beginning to commit to using sustainably harvested trees.

I spent years doing 'Star Trek' bits and things, and a lot of people loved it, a lot of people mocked it.

There was definitely a sense that 'The Next Generation' was the 'Star Trek' stepchild that nobody liked.