Edin Dzeko Quotes

It doesn't feel good when you're put down, and especially for no uncertain reason.

I used to read reviews - I read a lot of the reviews when I did 'Borgen,' but the thing is, people were so harsh that I talked to my wife about it, and I said this is too tough - the people are too personal and too idiotic to understand it, in my mind.

We get put down a lot in this industry, and I think when you're really young and you're not used to it, it really hurts you.

I'm going to get criticized my whole career.

I know what's it like when everyone has a go at you, when criticism is harsh, and your family is part of it. This drags you down, and you can't get on with your life.

The criticism hurts sometimes and I worry about the effect on my family.

When you're writing something, and you're putting yourself out there, or you're performing and someone comes in and savages that, then of course it feels personal. It doesn't feel like it's just business, because there's no business - it's not like we're conducting business, this anonymous critic and I. It's just that this person is tearing me a new asshole.

I am human, when people write bad stuff about me it bothers me, but I know that will never end.

I'm not thick-skinned at all, and of course I'm hurt by people attacking me as a person.

I think it's very dangerous for people who do anything that's public to venture on the Web and check out what people are saying about them. Yes, you're bound to find things that will delight you - but you also find things that will make you brood and feel bad about yourself. Why would you intentionally invite that into your life?

Y'know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show.

I don't get myself caught up in the rhetoric of any personal comments that are made.

I know I'm being judged, and anyone who works in the public eye will get some negativity at some point. It can be tough and it hurts. I can be very tough on myself. Occasionally, I hear or read something cruel and I'm shocked.

I take them seriously but I try not to read them. I take them personally, that's why I don't read them. I think people are lying when they say they don't care, that's not true. I take them personally.

I don't enjoy sparring with the audience. It devastates me.

When I worked with Bill Nighy on 'Wrath of the Titans,' he said to me, 'There's one thing you can promise me, and that's never, ever, ever read your reviews.'

One bad review can destroy me. It hurts so bad.

The judgment, criticism, and rejection you face as an actor can be overwhelming.

Joe was being called a liar and a traitor; I'm being accused of nepotism, of being a glorified secretary. The stresses that that places on an individual and, of course, a marriage were tremendous. It was - there were some dark days.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

Some of the things written about me hurt, but there is nothing I can do about it.

I've been bashed my whole career.

If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.

You are always going to have people criticizing, in one way or another, for their own personal reason.

I tried not to let all the criticism affect me, but it obviously does not go unnoticed.