Alan Menken Quotes

From the beginning, I've had to juggle and weigh the silly things people say - and I've learnt that they're meaningless, and they're mostly inaccurate. So I don't worry about it, because there's nothin' for me to deal with.

I've learnt that you shouldn't take people seriously, whether they praise you or trash you.

It used to worry me what people said about me. I'm learning not to worry as much. Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don 't take objection to it, because that's the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.

The whole world can gossip about you, and if you don't take it personally you are immune.

People have said unkind things and you kind of have to, if you happen to read it, you have to just, you know, move on.

If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end.

You've got to not care about what people think. You learn that as an actor. If you get a bad review, will you be destroyed by it? Or will you think you're God's gift when you get a rave review?

I have not given much credence to reviews of my films. Sometimes they're wrong, but it didn't matter to me.

People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other.

People are going to write things about you, but you have to take the good with the bad, so you shouldn't take it very seriously. If you take it to heart, it'll get very difficult to deal with. So, just take it with a pinch of salt.

Frankly, you're heading down a dangerous path if you take seriously what people say about you, and I don't read most of it.

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

It's always something; it's never going to be something that's pleasing. People will always find something to say, and once you become comfortable with that, you can walk away and smile.

Haters will be haters, you have got to acknowledge them and move on as the ratio of love to hate is too high.

Critics and criticism are part of the game and I've not been affected by it.

When people you don't know say nice things about you, if you allow yourself, even subconsciously, to attach a shred of meaning to it, when the opposite happens, when people you don't know say bad things about you, you can't attach that same meaning.

Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike.

I don't care what critics and other people think.

I don't care what people come at me with. People have come at me with everything you could imagine. I could care less about that.

You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.

With my mom, when someone was gone, they were gone. She didn't waste another minute thinking about them, and neither should you.

Never say about anything, "I have lost it," but only "I have given it back." Is your child dead? It has been given back. Is your wife dead? She has been returned.

Sometimes things work out on the golf course and sometimes they don't. Life will go on. You try to understand what happens, but maybe today I don't want to know. I just screwed up so maybe I should just put it behind me.

I have no expectations. None at all.