Quotes About Criticism

I know, personally, people said a lot about what kind of defender I was. So I wanted to get better at it.

I don't mind being criticized. I enjoy being criticized personally, not by rumor.

I work really hard at these books, and when colleagues write nasty reviews of them, I take it very personally.

You know, the hard thing about audiences not liking what a character does is that they sometimes take it out on the actor personally. That's something that you know when you become an actor or actress, but it's always hard to deal with when it actually happens.

I am one of the most attacked persons.

I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.

It's a disease of critics that once they've labeled someone, it's very hard to change their perspective. It's laziness.

First of all, let me just say what's interesting about American politics is that if things really get bad here, people say nasty things about you. From a global perspective, if politics get bad, you die, so let's just keep some perspective here.

It is a lot harder to write a good book or a good column in a persuasive way without making fun of someone or ridiculing them.

Call me a cockeyed pessimist, but I'm having trouble finding any good news in the trashing of Harriet Miers.

People do like to talk us down, it's a Scottish thing. We are pessimistic, we look for the negatives all the time.

My biggest pet peeve, I guess, is other comedians criticizing Larry the Cable Guy.

My pet peeve is when people criticize things when they're just trying to have a conversation.

There is a British assumption that you mustn't speak evil of anyone's garden because it is rude - it is like criticising their home, their children or their pets.

I was 15 on American Idol, and everybody had something to say. It was like I had my really awkward phase on national television, you know?

After my Kannada debut, I went through a difficult phase in life. People would make fun of me behind my back, and there were days I would cry alone for hours.

Phil Neville deserves better than a feeding frenzy of carping over his appointment as England Womens coach.

These people dissing Dr. Dre, they need to get off their cell phones for about a week and come back to reality. They have no idea. Do what he did and then talk to me.

In Hollywood, you can't say anything bad about anybody or everyone is going to attack you. It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that. I never was that; I'll never be that. That is part of the business that I don't like.

Kate Moss is always photographed without her top on, but she doesn't get any grief. Why me?

Many people when I started didn't believe I was a good fashion photographer, and probably they still think that.

Everybody is a film critic today, just like everybody who has a DSLR or a mobile phone is a photographer today. But, a saturation point will come some day.

You know, as photographers, we do pictures, and people either like them or they hate them.

I lost count of how many times photographers and designers would tell me to lose a bit of weight, especially as I got a little older and my body started to develop.