Ridley Scott Quotes

To pick up the paper and read about yourself getting slammed, that doesn't start your day off right.

I've never had a movie that got great reviews. I've had movies that got different levels of good and bad reviews, but you can more or less count on plenty of bad reviews.

Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do. Even if you go out there and try to make the most vanilla, non-offensive TV show possible, people are going to criticize you for doing that. It's just part of the game.

Now, I am about to be nailed as the man who disliked 'Howl's Moving Castle.' Lord, give me strength! Also, IT, please disconnect the e-mail thing.

When a film is reviled, you open a film and people say "Oh, it's the stupidest thing, it's the worst movie." You think: oh, nobody's going to ever speak to you again. But, it doesn't happen. Nobody cares. You know, they read it and they say "Oh, they hated your film." You care, at the time. But they don't. Nobody else cares.

There's always gonna be criticisms, no matter what movie you do, no matter what. You can't please everybody, and it doesn't matter what the genre is. There's always gonna be a positive to a negative comment.

It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something.

Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.

Politics is like getting a really bad review: a stinker that you know all your friends are reading.

I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.

The 'New York Times' reviews of my work have been evenly divided - favourable and unfavourable.

I have not given much credence to reviews of my films. Sometimes they're wrong, but it didn't matter to me.

Out of the total of 11 movies, I got slammed.

Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

I haven't read a single word that a critic has written about me since 1994.

If two of your films don't do well, people say you're out in the cold and your career is over. One film does well, and you've had the best year of your life! I don't believe in all that's written.

Some of those STINKIN' press people just had to make fun of my decision in joining the show. They also made fun of other choices in my life that I was proud of then and still am now!!!

I've been slagged off completely by the art world.

When I worked with Bill Nighy on 'Wrath of the Titans,' he said to me, 'There's one thing you can promise me, and that's never, ever, ever read your reviews.'

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

Does General Grant think I care what the newspapers say?

You should never fall in love with your own press clippings, because it is very much the nature of the beast that the same journalists who build you up between Monday and Friday tear you down for weekend fun...

There's been almost a dozen films that have been made against me. There's actually more films made attacking me than films I've made.

They've been bashing me since I started making films.

When I was 14 or 15, I was in a small troupe for teenagers, and I heard somebody say, 'Oh, she'll never get anywhere. She's too common.'