Charlie Brooker Quotes

It's a healthy thing to get some bad criticism. I'm still here and I'm fine, but I'd be lying if I said it didn't get to you reading the negative stuff.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

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.

A lot of people are like, 'Don't read your news clippings.' I read them every day. Anything negative somebody said about me, I find it and use it as fuel.

I had to learn that some people are just not going to like you. I had to have thick skin when I would see what people would say or write about me.

I guess you've just got to take it because there is always going to be negative criticism and positive. But I think both of them can make you stronger.

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

You just have to learn to live with the criticism even if it is unfair. It is a fact of life.

The criticism I received only served to make me a stronger person.

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

If your friend is critical [of your work], you have to have a very thick skin and a thick skin is something that only builds up after it's callused for awhile.

I have benefited greatly from criticism, and at no time have I suffered a lack thereof.

Negative feedback can make us bitter or better.

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the troughs that defines you.

I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.

I'm pretty easily overwhelmed and pretty tough as well. I think I'm tougher than I used to be. There's been a lot of hardship along the way. But that's what life is. And it's how you deal with those things, and how you let them shape you that makes you a better person and defines what sort of person you're going to be.

I grew up in the South, in New Orleans, where guys torture you all the time. So I didn't really grow up on the self-esteem campaign. When you were lousy at something, they told you you were lousy, and they told you how to fix it.

You can't listen to every little thing that's bad or good said about you. I always used that - whenever I heard it, I used it as fuel to motivate me, man. That's how I was raised, whenever I came up.

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

Even going back to the haters, it's messed up what they say, but that's made me stronger, and it's built me into who I am today, and I am completely fine with that.

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

Social media has become a big part of our lives and I try to manage it well but it's the criticism that motivates me and keeps me going.

I have been on the Internet for a long time and have always gotten hate on the Internet, so there is a thick skin I have developed.

I'm fine with criticism against me.

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.