Anne Beatts Quotes

If your friend is critical [of your work], you have to have a very thick skin and a thick skin is something that only builds up after it's callused for awhile.

If you're criticized then you can use it as an experience. Compliments, you can't use.

There's a lot of criticism in this job and what we do. It's in front of everybody and for everybody to have their own opinion about what we do. Don't be in this position if you can't handle that criticism.

You are never really prepared for criticism.

Bad reviews come with everything. I've been getting them my whole life.

Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough.

I'm used to bad reviews.

You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.

Rejection happens, and you have to have a thick skin about it, which is hard. You can't be overly sensitive about people not picking you.

Reviews don't bother me.

I wanted to do screenwriting. That's what I went to school for, but my major was overfilled, and when I got 'The Daily Show', I was a semester away from officially starting my major, so I never started that in particular.

I've never had a problem with criticism. Whether films or television, I've lived with it and emerged stronger.

I will take all the criticism constructively. It will help me to learn and improve with every film.

If you do not play well, it is normal that they criticise you. But criticism is part of the game, so you accept it.

There's always going to be people who will criticize my performance. Sometimes, it gets irritating. Sometimes I just brush it off and say these people don't know what they are talking about.

If you come from WWE, you have a thick skin because you're hated on all day, every day.

In the music business, there's a lot of criticism and rejection. If you embrace it, you'll be better off when the adjustment comes.

In the past, I've been lucky enough to receive some high praise, but when the experts have a go, I'm usually not particularly interested in what they have got to say.

I guess you've just got to take it because there is always going to be negative criticism and positive. But I think both of them can make you stronger.

Criticism comes with Celtic. If you take it on board, it can make you ill, but if you think: 'No problem', it makes you really thick-skinned.

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.

I have scripts that I've only shown to animals... and they passed on them.

Critics and criticism are part of the game and I've not been affected by it.

You just have to learn to live with the criticism even if it is unfair. It is a fact of life.

You deal with failure - strike, strike, strike - all the time. Acting is like that. You have to have a very thick skin in a way - your hair is too dark, you're too ugly for the part, your audition wasn't good.