Chris Martin Quotes

If you want to be honest with yourself, you have to take criticism, even if you attract adverse comments from others.

I don't have any problem with criticism. It's an incentive to refine myself.

We will all face criticism throughout our lives, no matter where we live and what we weigh.

It's better that you're criticized than complimented as a person.

Critics can say horrible things. It only hurts when I agree with them.

I appreciate both good and bad - I don't want to sit in a bubble where everyone just tells me everything positive to keep my morale high.

I agree that my films have flopped, and I have been slammed for my nasal voice, my look, and my dialogue delivery. But every time I got a negative feedback, I went out of my way to work on it.

When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody's bothering to tell you anymore, that's a very bad place to be. Your critics are the ones telling you they still love you and care.

I had someone tell me I fell off, ooh I needed that.

Be sure to expose yourself to criticism: A fine polish requires an abrasive.

I have learned to watch myself and give myself constructive criticism. Although I have to cover my face and peek sometimes!

There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.

Every time I'd get a critique or some redirection, I'd always just take it very personally. Now I have no problem with it.

When something's wrong, even though you're the one doing it, you shouldn't feel defensive about it. It's hard because you have to protect yourself as a person in your life, but you can't protect yourself as an actor. You have to just take criticism.

Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit.

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.

Frankly speaking, if I care what people write, whether it is positive or negative, I believe, personally, I'm on the wrong path.

You have days where you're trying to be your best, and you say something, and you see it being written in three different places and in a way that you didn't mean for it to be interpreted. But you just try to do your best. You kind of just have to let everything else roll off your back.

If you take everything personally and to heart, it will tear you apart. Take criticism, learn, adjust, and move on.

I know my strengths and weaknesses, and I play to them.

I don't like reading good things about myself. With the criticism and the negative things, I always think that makes me better.

In fact, I often accept criticism because I feel it helps me to get better and get stronger. And I hardly ever remember the compliments.

We have to lower our guard and know saying something's wrong isn't a bad thing.

I'm fine with criticism against me.

I do not take to the field to defend myself from certain criticisms. If I do, in this kind of career, it is because I'm very self-critical.