Paul Rudd Quotes

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

Critics are critics: their job is to find things wrong with people.

To all my critics, you get paid to be negative.

You know, if I started worrying about what the critics think, I'd never make another comedy. You couldn't pick a less funny group than critics - you couldn't find a more bitter group of people!

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

If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.

I don't read the critics.

I don't think it's useful for somebody to argue with reviews.

Reviews don't bother me.

I think the trouble with artists or chefs who whine about criticism is that if you love the good reviews, you have to at least read the bad ones.

Yea, there is no way you can get away from critics. It's all over the net. Sometimes it's useful to read things, good or bad. Sometimes it's painful. Sometimes it stupid because they say stupid things.

There are some critics that will just write provocative stuff to get attention, but I would say most of the time that's not the case.

If you pay attention to good critics, you have to listen to the bad. So you have to ignore them all really. You can't just cherry pick the glowing ones.

No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

You're always going to have your detractors.

Critics and criticism are part of the game and I've not been affected by it.

People are going to take shots at you for everything you did bad, and they forget about all the good things you did. They do it to everyone. They're going to do it to me, they've done it to all of them. They did it to Tom Landry. Are you kidding me? Tom Landry? With the fedora? Come on. They did it to Tom Landry.

In public life, criticism cannot be avoided completely.

There's always going to be haters, but those people are few. We're not too worried about it.

There's a fine line between cultural criticism and bitterness.

Actually, sometimes in the media, your harshest critics can be your peers.

For I am nothing if not critical.

My friends tell me that I have a tendency to point out problems without offering solutions, but they never tell me what I should do about it.

I try to find a balance between positivity and negativity, celebration and critique in my work; I think there is room for both.

It would be so much better if the critics would come, not on first nights, but on last nights, when they could exercise their undoubted flair for funeral orations.