Tommy Wiseau Quotes

In 24 years in the movie business, you have a lot of doors slammed in your face, and a lot of people say mean things. Every time, I'm constantly surprised at how the span of time gets quicker that I get okay with it, and I'm over it. That's been an interesting thing to learn.

I don't disagree with the critics often, and I'm not destroyed by bad criticism anymore. There comes a point when you go beyond it.

You can't expect everyone to love you. I'm not someone who just wants to throw out hate, just because.

If you woke up, every day, and someone punched you in the face, for the first week, you'd go, 'Why is someone punching me in the face?' But, by the time you got through week two, you'd take it and just go on with the day.

… there isn’t anything you can’t stand if you are only born and bred to it..

I'm not mad when people talk bad about me; that's the way it is.

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

I don't need their love. If they want to boo, let them boo.

My skin got thicker. I don't listen to stuff from outside or even if I hear or if I read something, I just let it go very easily.

I became very patient. There are a lot of times when people who do not like you are talking about you and telling bad things on your face. In our personal life, we do get affected by such things.

I am used to a lot of criticism.

You've got to have thick skin in this business.

People are always going to be negative when they mention my name, but I can accept that and that's what makes it easier for me to go on.

Not everybody is going to understand you. You can't please everybody. That's just human nature. Everybody has their opinion, and that's going to be there. You deal with it. You take it in stride. You take the good with the bad, the bad with the good. That's part of life.

Someone will inevitably find something wrong in almost everything, so do what it is that you do best and remember to have enough tolerance for two.

A man could get used to anything if he had to.

You get used to anything, sooner or later it just becomes your life.

There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

Those ills are easiest to bear with which we are most familiar.

For the personality, bankruptcy or failure may be a disaster. For the soul, it may be grist for its strangely joyful mill, and a condition it has been secretly engineering for years.

I don't really have the luxury to be bitter. I don't have the luxury of having negative things in my life.

Can't react every time you're insulted. Free people absorb destructive things and refuse to be destroyed

I've accrued a kind of patience, I believe, loosely like change.

I like the humility that comes from being hated. Hopefully some humility and compassion comes out of that.

People can get accustomed to anything, right? Habit does things to people.