Quotes About Criticism

The best we ever did was 8-8. But my career was not as dreadful as people make it out to be. You don't see any scars on Archie Manning.

A lot of people behind the scenes were telling me that I was going to have to do something with my hair, my weight, all of that stuff.

Sometimes you don't play well or you don't score, and in those times, the pressure comes from all around you as well as from yourself.

If we lose games, and I don't score a lot, they gonna say I'm not scoring enough.

It's Never Trumpers who deserve the most scorn, especially the inadequates from the Lincoln Project.

Arlen Specter is a scoundrel.

I can't watch myself on screen without dying a little bit inside. And there are lots of moments when I think, 'What am I doing as an actor? I can't act!'

If you don't score for a few games at Juve you are immediately under scrutiny.

I have been a part of stage shows, but yes, I do get cold feet when I think that every move of mine will be under scrutiny!

If I lived my life according to what Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh said about me, I would just stay in bed all day.

When you're young and search your name on Twitter to see what everyone is saying about you, which everyone does when you're young... it was one of those things I had to get on with.

Give me one coach in any sport that's not always on the hot seat. You're just as good as your last game... You're always on a hot seat.

That's one thing that's been aimed at me since I was 17: a lack of pace.

I've been accused, many times, as a writer/director, of my pace being too leisurely and too long.

The experienced writer says to the anguished novice: 'Just do it; get something, anything, on to the screen or page, just establish a flow of words, and criticise them later.' You give this advice but can't always take it.

I just feel I'm on a different page from the reviewers, so I've learned not to care about them too much.

To all my critics, you get paid to be negative.

People wonder aloud about whether I am an okay mother. That is obviously painful because it's so important to me. It's hard to hear that people think I'm not a capable mother and a good person, that they just think I'm nuts.

Although it's painful at the time, most of the things that people have said about us negatively - some of them are true and you can work on them, and the ones that you don't agree with, you don't work on.

If I criticize my country, it is indeed very painful for me. It doesn't make me happy. But, if I see something wrong, it becomes my duty to speak up.

When you make an album, you have to decide how much you want to give away; you have to decide how much you want to open up. Because the more you open up the more rewarding it can be but the more dangerous it can be. If you really open up and it gets panned it's really painful.

Fame doesn't matter; people approving of you doesn't matter. And if it does matter, you're in store for something very difficult and painful.

Celebrity culture is something that pains me.

I always feel attacked when I'm asked about my painting.