Quotes About Criticism

A lot of what journalists write is drivel.

Criticism is part of the creative man's journey, and I appreciate it.

The first time that I was elected I was called the Judas Iscariot of the black community because I took a stand that was inconsistent of cutting across the grain.

The thing is, if you're in this world, you have to do things for yourself, not for others, because everyone will judge you for anything.

I would never criticize a federal judge, particularly if I had a court case in front of him, but you would certainly never, ever criticize them based on their ethnic background.

Judge me if you want to. And as a matter of fact, it won't even count, 'cause the only person who can judge is God.

A lot of people judge me because I like to, you know, look good, but I grew up in fashion.

My message is simple to all the knockers: I am knuckling down and want to play my football with a great club and a great manager. Then you can judge me.

On the first movie we got good reviews, but we were still dealing with genre stuff. It's going away. Judge the movie - is it a good one or a bad one? We know we made a great movie and it's being judged for just being a good film.

When you play cricket for India, you are always under the scanner. You are always judged by others; you have to live up to it all.

I'm used to being judged. I know what that feels like.

I feel like my entire career and life, I've been judged by people who did not really know me. I definitely think that they probably were right to assume what they had assumed about me, because there was such little to go on out there.

It's always nice to have people love you, but I'd just like to be judged fairly.

I think most Americans understand that we went through a period in which American leadership was judged quite critically internationally.

I think I've always been interested in playing people who are judged very harshly.

I want to be judged harshly because that forces me to really sit down and focus.

I've never had any problem with criticism. I've given a lot, and I've copped a lot. But I believe I've got a role to play by insisting that women be judged by their contribution - not somebody's view of what they should be about.

There's so much crap attached to acting: the fame aspect, the ego aspect, the 'Am I good, am I bad, am I being judged, who likes me, who doesn't like me...'

The crazy thing about independent filmmaking is that you're so judged on your first film. It almost needs to be one of those groundbreaking 'I've-never-seen-that-before'-type movies.

In films, you will be judged by your last hit or, let's say, your last film.

The fact is, as all we strikers know, we tend to get judged just on the number of goals.

Being a model, you're constantly judged on the way you look, but I think you have to be really strong and confident in knowing who you are and not take anything personally, you know, because not everybody can like you, and not everybody will think you're beautiful.

I still use a lot of good values from growing up in the Church, and there was a sense of community. But you were also being heavily judged by people that wanted to look down on you for not being as great as they are.

I hate being judged.