Voltaire Quotes

Being accused of enthusiasm is something I'll never live down.

And it's always possible that you will not get a nice review. So - and that's enraging of course, to get a bad review, you can't talk back, and it's sort of shaming in a way.

At times, here at Milan, I have felt humiliated.

Getting booed off, definitely not the best feeling.

He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.

When improv is bad, it's excruciating to watch, and to be involved with it is a unique type of torture.

I am reading it [his press coverage] more and enjoying it less.

When my films don't do well, I'm hurt and surprised. It's discouraging.

One time, when I was in my teens, jamming in a Kansas City club, I was doing all right until I tried doing double tempo on 'Body and Soul.' Everybody fell out laughing. I went home and cried and didn't want to play again for three months.

I think, sometimes, you can just get really burnt out on something you enjoy doing and feel like the sponge is completely wrung dry.

Billie Jean just caught me on a bad day.

I walked on eggshells a lot. I have a bad self-esteem problem, and my father probably facilitated it. He once looked at me very seriously when I was about 15 and had whipped cream smeared all over myself. He said, 'You'd do anything for a laugh, wouldn't you?'

Sometimes it's hard. I'm not going to lie. It's tough. You feel like you're killing yourself, and you're giving it all you've got, and you're just not seeing it.

I hate when someone gets the better of me. A Division 1 wrestler comes in and takes me down and I get frustrated.

Negative feedback can make people feel inferior.

I get really tired of all the comments saying I should change my approach.

There is mental as well as physical fatigue. You have to cry, scream, keep on repeating the same dialogue till you get it right.

There are people who would love to see me fail.

One of the biggest things that hurt me during 'Survivor' was I found out girls can run faster than I can. That really burned me up.

It doesn't 'hurt' me, hearing criticism from ex-players. It probably disappoints me a little bit more.

I was banned when I feel I was at my peak, and anyone in my shoes would feel the same way I did and would also have gone through the whole range of emotions that I did.

If somebody scores on me, I'm going to be mad.

I go to the British Comedy Awards and, you know, quite a few people were making jokes at my expense. It just made me feel awful, because I am there with my wife and she has gone out and bought a dress. And it is my big night and I won, and yet the overriding experience was that of nastiness.

You create something, and when it doesn't work, it's kind of like people make fun of your kid or something.

The master was an old Turtle--we used to call him Tortoise--' Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't one?' Alice asked. We called him Tortoise because he taught us,' said the Mock Turtle angrily; 'really you are very dull!' You ought to be ashamed of yourself for asking such a simple question,' added the Gryphon; and then they both sat silent and looked at poor Alice, who felt ready to sink into the earth.