Adam Richman Quotes

Frankly speaking, if I care what people write, whether it is positive or negative, I believe, personally, I'm on the wrong path.

I don't like reading good things about myself. With the criticism and the negative things, I always think that makes me better.

I don't buy the hype when everybody is saying how wonderful things are and how great I am, and I don't get too down when people say, "This is a disaster and he's done for."

I don't care about people kissing my ass or telling me how great I am. I don't really give a damn. I read the bad stuff a whole lot more than I read the good stuff. I read that because there are always going to be critics who are going to say how good you aren't.

It would be nice if everybody who had something interesting to say about my work could say it politely and civilly, but it doesn't work that way... Sometimes people are just really nasty.

Publicly criticizing people, even when I don't have the facts, is not that good of an idea.

You're happy that people are seeing your work. As for the critics, it really hurts when they knock you.

We love to receive praise, but usually we're not certain what message, precisely, we should take from it. On the other hand, when someone points out our flaws, we realize immediately that something needs to change.

I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.

I know that there are some people who don't like me, and that kind of surprises me more than the people who love me.

I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.

You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.

Although it's painful at the time, most of the things that people have said about us negatively - some of them are true and you can work on them, and the ones that you don't agree with, you don't work on.

There's something delicious about finding fault with something. And that can be including finding fault with one's self, you know?

I don't mind being criticized. I enjoy being criticized personally, not by rumor.

There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.

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

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

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.

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

Of course I wish for all positive reviews and all positive things, but that's not reality and no one's perfect.

We have to lower our guard and know saying something's wrong isn't a bad thing.

I'm fine with criticism against me.

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.

I am not an actor who enjoys negative comments on other heroes.