Mike Colter Quotes

I'm neither excited nor worried when my film releases. As an artiste, I would definitely want people to like my work... that's why we are here. But I don't really sit up and look at reviews. I have never sat down to ponder over what others have to say.

I don't really consider myself one of those actors who takes his work home with him.

I don't judge other people's work and I don't see enough of it either.

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

I don't read reviews, good or bad, just for my own sanity.

When the movie comes out, what anybody thinks of it doesn't really matter to me. I don't go to the wrap party. I don't go to the premiere.

I always say, 'Be anxious for nothing,' because if this is my social media, if this is a platform for me to really get the word out and get my brand out, then why am I gonna be anxious about it?

I have seen this whole process of films releasing, becoming hits or flops, for too long now to expect things to do well. If I expect a film to do well, then it is for somebody else's sake, not for my own. I do my work, and if you feel that my work is improving from film to film, then I have done my part of the job.

'Beautiful' is a freestyle, actually. I actually made 'Beautiful' being like, 'I just want something to post on Instagram, like, I don't care, I'm just gonna throw something up today.'

In this day and age, people have come to expect that artists are going to give everybody information on Twitter about what they're doing, but not every artist is like that. I'm not really like that.

Once the film is released, once my job is over, I can't see the film again.

Making music can get so emotional that, if you don't set limits for yourself, it can push you or the person that you're making music with to a breaking point.

Frankly, you're heading down a dangerous path if you take seriously what people say about you, and I don't read most of it.

The best advice I received came late, and it's this: Don't read the comments section of any story that mentions you!

I can truly say this: I don't care, and I've never really read what people thought.

I don't read the comments people write about me - it's not worth it.

The most important thing anyone taught me in this business was not to take anything personally.

Some of the fans are mad at me, some of the fans cheer for me, I can't worry about that.

I read about two reviews early on when my first record came out, and it just freaked me out, good and bad, so I've never really kept up with that side of it.

We don't read a lot of what people say about us.

I really don't care to be criticized. I stay in my lane and do me.

People can think what they want about me.

I don't read too much into things and look at social media. It's all a load of crap.

Every person on Twitter is a critic. Every person who watches a movie will write a blog or a review. You can't go out trying to impress these people.

As far as social media and all that, I understand connecting with fans on a different level, but I don't feel the need to open myself up to the opinion of everybody in the world with a phone or computer. I just don't get that, being connected to everybody on such a superficial level like that. It's not really for me.