Jerome Boateng Quotes

Every time I'd get a critique or some redirection, I'd always just take it very personally. Now I have no problem with it.

I appreciate both good and bad - I don't want to sit in a bubble where everyone just tells me everything positive to keep my morale high.

When someone praises me, I get wary. If someone has something negative to say, I invite them over for a long chat. They are important for my growth as an actor.

The only person who needs to know about failure is yourself.

If you're open for praise, you have to be open to criticism.

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

I've read some pretty harsh criticisms of my music, but some of them I agreed with and actually sat with me.

Some people, when they get criticism, they shy away from it.

I am not afraid to ask for feedback on my work or appearance, and try to never take that advice personally.

There have been scenes and sequences I've done that I watch back now and cringe and think I dealt with that in completely the wrong way. Sometimes I'm too emotional - too invested, in that sense - but you learn, and then you don't do it again.

Valid criticism is something that we are open for, and we take it in the spirit in which it is given and try to improve ourselves.

Those who profit from adversity possess a spirit of humility and are therefore inclined to make the necessary changes needed to learn from their mistakes, failures, and losses. ... When we are focused too much on ourselves, we lose perspective. Humility allows us to regain perspective and see the big picture. ... Humility allows us to let go of perfection and keep trying.

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

Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance.

I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

When something's wrong, even though you're the one doing it, you shouldn't feel defensive about it. It's hard because you have to protect yourself as a person in your life, but you can't protect yourself as an actor. You have to just take criticism.

You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.

I learned so much, and I feel I have grown as an actor and as a person.

Dig for feedback on yourself. You need to have the courage to ask for feedback. You need to learn how you can learn how to grow. It is important that you are going to be a lifelong learner.

It can be more productive to help people learn to be 'right' than prove they were 'wrong.'

I find that comforting and an equally purposeful way to think, that there's lots of ways to flex both your strengths and your weaknesses.

If you can't admit your faults how can you ever grow?

In fact, I often accept criticism because I feel it helps me to get better and get stronger. And I hardly ever remember the compliments.

Remember that when criticism is difficult to accept, there is probably some truth to it.

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.