Quotes About Criticism

My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism. I put myself before the public voluntarily.

People tend to scare you pointing out your shortfalls. If you voluntarily admit your faults, then people won't have anything to point out.

I studied classics, and I find it mystifying that we had Medea and Electra and Antigone and all these amazing characters, and they don't really exist in cinema now. The only person who's really doing it, and he gets loads of criticism for it, is Lars Von Trier.

I think when you've lost an election by 179, there's going to be a period of time after eighteen years in government when you can't do anything right, and people just kick you for the sake of it, will never admit they voted Conservative.

Just as the England football manager starts with bells and flags and balloons and ends up reviled, so do prime ministers. Tony Blair - is there anyone more despised now? Gordon Brown - all right, nobody voted for him but, you know... just think of any of them. Margaret Thatcher. John Major. Steve McLaren. Fabio Capello.

All too often, I will see people on the left slam Trump for the way he treats or talks about other people. Then those same individuals - sometimes even in the same breath - will go on to say even worse things about the people who voted for him.

Every voter has a right to criticise a government and comment on its functioning.

While Republican voters have remained universally supportive of their President, Democrats and Independents are returning to a more naturally critical stance.

It is tough to run for public office and face an opponent, to decide on issues what is the best thing, then face the criticism from colleagues, voters, the press and defend yourself.

I mean, it just seems to me that everybody wants to get on each other, everybody wants to attack everybody.

There is a segment of people who like me and I am very happy to get the love and support from them. There is some segment which doesn't like me and that is okay.

I don't read reviews, There's no value for me in reading them. Whether they're good or bad, they'll just make me self-conscious.

When we were younger we were so confident. Then when we got flung into the industry we began to get self-conscious and started criticising ourselves because other people were doing it.

I am so self-critical.

All actors are self-critical.

Washington has always had a pretty healthy amount of self-loathing.

People say I'm selfish. There might be some truth to that.

I take a lot of flak from the counter-establishment for selling out.

I think, ever since I started doing well commercially, it's always been like, 'Oh, well, you're only where you are because of your dad, and it must be because of Mark Ronson and Greg Kurstin that you do well.' It's just everyone apart from me is responsible for the songs that I've written selling millions around the world.

The U.S. Senate already has one Arlen Specter too many.

People send everyone hate mail. That's the way the world works right now, I'm nothing special.

I have a heart and am extremely sensitive to what people say about me, both in the press and otherwise.

I'm very sensitive to criticism, particularly when it's very, very personal.

When I read a review, 90% of the review is about my lifestyle, and the last two sentences are about the record.