Stephen Daldry Quotes

Some people will be quite happy you have failed and will find a way to tell you so directly and indirectly. Yep, that is life. Do not let their insecurities impact you.

I think that we're our own worst enemies in a lot of ways, especially when it comes to doing work where you're criticized a lot or doing work where there's a lot of hater directed at you; and to not constantly second-guess yourself.

I tend to take negative comments to heart.

I know I'm being judged, and anyone who works in the public eye will get some negativity at some point. It can be tough and it hurts. I can be very tough on myself. Occasionally, I hear or read something cruel and I'm shocked.

Really? Worst film you ever saw. Well, my next one will be better. Hello. Hello.

I was playing and having a lot of success, but I also felt a lot of criticism behind it. I didn't know why.

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

If I am going to be afraid of the criticisms that my films get, I am never going to make films.

Everywhere I look, someone is telling me, 'You're not good enough,' or, 'You can't do this or that.' You can only hear that so many times before enough is enough.

The hardest part is just hearing people saying that I won't amount to crap, and that I'm going to be a bust.

You'll go down a dark road if you just dwell on every time you screw up. We play a very fickle position. If I make nine kicks out of 10, people are going to talk about the one I missed.

The worm that destroys you is the temptation to agree with your critics, to get their approval.

I went through a period of first successes. Then there was the inevitable change: the bad newspaper articles. Some people don't care about that, but I do. I'm hurt. I feel it. I don't think I've done anything dreadful. Sometimes you do things for reasons the press doesn't know. But I'm happy to go on as I have.

There will be those who will tell you that you can't make it because of how you look, because of the way you talk. We all have heard that - I almost listened.

I can get quite down on myself because if people don't like what you're doing, it's hard.

It's better not to read your reviews. Just go and do the thing... it would drive you crazy otherwise.

CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work.

Don't give up. Don't listen to these foolish critics that are so small minded they don't get it tonight.

Lately I feel the haters eatin' away at my confidence. They scream out my failures and whisper my accomplishments.

But in some ways I think it's braver to do it like this. And, to an extent, you know what? The worst that can happen is that everyone says, 'Well, that was dreadful, she should have stuck to writing for kids' and I can take that. So, yeah, I'll put it out there, and if everyone says, 'Well, that's shockingly bad – back to wizards with you', then obviously I won't be throwing a party. But I will live. I will live.

They laughed at Edison and Einstein, but somehow I still feel uncomfortable when they laugh at me.

I've always been criticized, right from the beginning! Right from the very first day I was born... They said I wasn't right for the part!

I thought about all the people that told me I couldn't do it and told me I couldn't get there.

When you invent something, there will always be people to criticise. God's creation is full of critics, but has God given up His creation because of the critics?

I felt like everyone was shitting on me, like, "She didn't get that deal with Interscope. She got dropped! She won't get another project!" making it so much worse then any of it really was. I felt like they wanted me to fail and I thought, I'm not going to go anywhere. I'm going to get my glory. I'm going to get my shine.