Unjust Judgement Quotes

Sometimes literary critics review the book they wanted you to write, not the book you wrote, and that's very irksome.

On career day as a young journalist, I scraped up my money and went to this big conference for young journalists, and the great feedback I got was that I would not or should not become an anchor because my eyelashes were too long and too distracting.

Some people have questioned whether or not I can play a nice guy. Sometimes you can't win for losing.

I don't feel I've had a decent critic ever on the East coast.

I criticize those critics. The reason being that they're doing one of the worst things that ever can be done to an actor, which is to say, Look, you do what we like you to do or else.

The peculiar importance attached, at present, to adultery is quite irrational... Moral rules ought not to be such as to make instinctive happiness impossible

I am the worst judge of my books.

The critics never see my role as it is - as a man protecting his garden killing poisonous snakes. Instead, they say it's just me again committing violence.

I think it's unfair for people to decide what my strength is after just three films.

Generally, there's a correlation between good work and good reviews. In the very odd, very rare case that they say it's terrible, but actually you're a genius who is ahead of your time, you are going to just have to suffer.

It's really irritating. Even people who like my work sometimes come up to me and say, 'I usually don't like female comedians, but your material is great!' It makes the job prospect more daunting. Funny is funny, you know?

I am hurt that some people criticise very harshly without even realising the hardships which we go through.

You can act as nice as you can 100% of the time, and it will still not make everybody say nice things about you.

Sometimes, there can be a slightly condescending assumption that anything unlikable about a female character is a mistake, as if they're a contestant in a beauty pageant and have to seem charming and upbeat all the time.