Ben Elton Quotes

Van Gaal is receptive to other people's ideas.

Humility in this business [acting] isn't just a matter of being polite, it's kind of a matter of survival. You can't ever afford to think that you're the bee's knees, because you could always afford to be better. You have to always be searching for something better.

You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.

I've always wanted to push myself and move with the tide. That's just how I am and it's worked for me.

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

So often we try to alter circumstances to suit ourselves, instead of letting them alter us, which is what they are meant to do.

I don't think I've ever been moulded but I think I am always learning.

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

Two things I'm trying to work on are openness and flexibility.

I think I always try to be accommodating and open and available and proving for my director. I love to give as many takes as they want. I love to give them as many choices as they want.

There has to be a willingness to constantly accept critical feedback and rapidly iterate to make things better.

I'm pretty adaptable and can adjust to any environment.

When I show up to act in a movie for somebody else, I just want to be nice and helpful and do what they want because I know how difficult it is to make a movie. I don't want to cause any problems. So you show up and do your job, and I think if a director understands that, you don't make a lot of demands.

I'm always open for people saying I'm wrong because most of the time I am.

It is not easy for me to accept criticism and reassess my way of doing things.

I don't have any problem with criticism. It's an incentive to refine myself.

You have days where you're trying to be your best, and you say something, and you see it being written in three different places and in a way that you didn't mean for it to be interpreted. But you just try to do your best. You kind of just have to let everything else roll off your back.

I have to accept constructive criticism.

Any position I was going to be in, I was going to make the best of it. I always do.

I have always taken everything as it comes and tried to stay in good shape.

I was the guy who would go out and do whatever he needed to do, no matter what.

I've learned not to say, 'No, I'd never do that.'

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

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 take everything personally and to heart, it will tear you apart. Take criticism, learn, adjust, and move on.