A. Bartlett Giamatti Quotes

Every time I'd get a critique or some redirection, I'd always just take it very personally. Now I have no problem with it.

The harshest criticism may be the best words you ever hear.

To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it's just noise that can be a distraction.

I agree that my films have flopped, and I have been slammed for my nasal voice, my look, and my dialogue delivery. But every time I got a negative feedback, I went out of my way to work on it.

I take the constructive criticism only.

It is undoubtedly true, though it may seem paradoxical,--but, in general, those who are habitually employed in finding and displaying faults are unqualified for the work of reformation.

We're not really good at knowing what we want, and we are quick to say 'this sucks'. That's where the opportunity lies.

Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders.

When new pages are sent to editors and see rejection, we should ask for the reasons. We must study the reasons for failure and learn. It's not about struggle with our limitations or with public or the publishers. It's more about treating it like in aikido; the strength of the attack is used to defeat him with the same effort.

I'm not sure I'd go back and do anything over in my life. I've definitely had my fair share of failures and moments where I wasted my time or that of other people, but if I did those moments over, I'd have missed out on so many lessons.

Maybe sometimes I have been wrong with some movies. Anyway, I try to do my best.

I have learned to watch myself and give myself constructive criticism. Although I have to cover my face and peek sometimes!

I always say the minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning and I've definitely learned a lot.

The more I act, the harder it gets, since I feel like I still have so much to learn. Whenever I embark on a new project, it always feels like the first time. If it were easy to me and I felt like I knew everything, my acting might have been different. I think the feeling of 'newness' keeps me on my toes and concentrated.

Even though I had pushed through the Tango album, it was just not a very good environment to be in on a daily basis. In many ways, this is the best time of my life.

I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.

To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

You can always say, 'I wish I had landed that triple flip better, or I wish I didn't fall.' They're not regrets, just mistakes.

You are wise, witty and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of stuff.

Although it's painful at the time, most of the things that people have said about us negatively - some of them are true and you can work on them, and the ones that you don't agree with, you don't work on.

It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.

If I had it all to do over again, I would do most all things differently. However, how would I know that if, I had not had the opportunity to do them the first time.

I don't mind being criticized. I enjoy being criticized personally, not by rumor.

I do need to be told when I'm going wrong. No one's acting can be an exact, 100 percent science.