Dinah Maria Mulock Quotes

Audiences can be very judgmental.

Those who never sail stormy waters are the quickest and harshest judges of bad seamanship.

I am very quick to judge.

We all want to judge; it's an intrinsic part of our society and human nature. I'm not surprised that talent shows are hits, but I'm glad some of them aren't so brutal.

I learned the hard way that people are quick to judge, will jump at the chance of a cheap ego boost at another's expense.

John Howard Davies was not a very human person... if you made a mistake of any kind, any sort of pause in speech, he would treat you rather as if he was a schoolmaster.

Critics themselves, they used to tear me up.

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

People are forever finding something wrong with you.

There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.

When people say, 'Why don't you face the music?' I say, 'You have to understand the music is not an open court and a fair trial.'

The judgment, criticism, and rejection you face as an actor can be overwhelming.

You are always going to have people criticizing, in one way or another, for their own personal reason.

We're being critiqued every day, whether you hear them critiquing you, or it's behind your back, whether it's the client, casting, friends, agents - you're constantly being judged, and you're constantly being denied!

I think women judge other women more harshly, always, which is a shame.

History is a stern judge.

Who begins with severity, in judging of another, ends commonly with falsehood.

The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.

What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one’s own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?

A young critic is like a boy with a gun; he fires at every living thing he sees. He thinks only of his own skill, not of the pain he is giving.

Ordinary men commonly condemn what is beyond them.

Maybe I was a bit harsh on some people. But I was harshest on myself, really.

Judging the mistakes of strangers is an easy thing to do - and it feels pretty good.

Your attitude is perhaps a little unnecessarily rigorous," suggested Jack.

Everybody is trying to be perfect. And the moment somebody starts trying to be perfect, he starts expecting everybody else to be perfect. He starts condemning people, he starts humiliating people.