Personal Criticism Quotes

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

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

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

An attack is always a smear when it is directed against you.

I'm fine with criticism against me.

I don't watch my movies. I just get too critical of myself.

I've covered the league over two decades, I've known Bryan Colangelo for a long, long time. He's not someone who goes on and off the record criticizing his contemporaries or his predecessors.

Sometimes when I hear commentating, it's sickening. People who never played the game, people who never played in the league have an opinion, and that's all it is. You are here to educate the watcher or the viewer. Sometimes it comes off as personal. I don't ever want to come off like that. My opinion is my opinion about someone.

You are physically up for scrutiny by everyone and you hear everyone's opinion.

Some people will always hate the name Blackwater. They might not like me.

Everything has added up to a load that I'm getting tired of carrying. It's gotten so complicated. It's the three failed marriages, and having kids that grew up without me, and it's the personal criticism, of being Mr. Nice Guy, or of divorcing my wife by fax, all that stuff, the journalism, some of which I find insulting.

People look at me and go, 'He's only successful because he's got a bunch of 16-year-old girls at his back who don't understand comedy.' Well, they do. In any case, no one hates me more than I do; no one's more self-conscious about that than I am.

Everybody has an ego, and they don't like their athletic ability to be questioned.

Those who call me an opportunist are following the old rule: If you can't attack the data, attack the person.

I'm still very critical of myself in film.

My wife accuses me - and she's probably right - that I'm sometimes oversensitive.

I can't stand to watch anything that I'm in. I tear it apart. The worst thing you can do is leave me alone and let me watch what I'm in. It's abusive.

I played the trumpet a bit like a porker, I think.

I get really negative comments all the time, but the comments that really bother me are the ones that question my character.

Sadly, it has often been said that my rear is better than my front, so thank you very much indeed.

I never care personally what people say about me. The music, and the message - this will always be more important to me than people thinking I'm the best.

I've seen a lot of women give up after they've had three or four bad gigs in a row. It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.

Everyone's going to have an opinion on the way I play the game, or things I've done.

If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.

I am not generally regarded as a pleasant or socially minded fellow.