Christine Lagarde Quotes

All players want nice things to be said and written about them and you have to take the reverse in equal measure.

I've got the public. I don't care about the critics. I did at one time. I don't any more. I did when I needed compliments. But if you get a lot of compliments, you don't need a critic to tell you, 'This should be done another way.'

The nature of how we are as human beings is that we're much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.

Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do. Even if you go out there and try to make the most vanilla, non-offensive TV show possible, people are going to criticize you for doing that. It's just part of the game.

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

I never wish for critics.

When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.

Usually when I am in a movie that is about to come out, if people don't love it, that is fine - I can handle it.

I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.

No one likes to be criticized.

When people come up to me and say 'I hate you' or 'I love to hate you,' it's not the usual response that I thought I would've gotten halfway into my career. And then they say, 'I love your work.'

It is more difficult to praise rightly than to blame.

I try not to read best-dressed lists or anything like that. For every good thing, there will often be a not-so-nice thing people would say.

If we're a hit, let 'em say anything they want.

Here in America, people come out to see what they've known you to do. In England, it's like everyone comes out to tell you exactly how well they think you're doing.

I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.

The audiences in the U.K. like me more than in America.

I think there are some folks who don't particularly like what I have to say, but on the whole, the reaction has been very positive.

Never was a memorial yet erected that was not subject to criticism.

It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause.

People who are satisfied with a prospective [presidential] appointment do not make any particular noise about it, but those who do not like it clamor.

It is a grand thing to get advice and criticism of people who really want to make more useful such things as any of us poor scribes write for the general public. There is just one bit of cheer, however, no matter how much we improve, everyone will never be pleased and therefore we may hope that everyone will never be displeased either.

If somebody comes up and says something good about you, that is never taken as an adhesive thing like something negative about you.

If one person in a thousand criticized me while all the others cheered, I didn't hear the cheers.

Even when my grandparents compliment me, I don't like when they do that.