The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.
I have no interest in anyone who wants to criticise me, or doesn't like me despite never having met me.
People go 'You look a lot like Minnie Driver.' Once I said, 'Thanks, Minnie is a great actress.' But, it blew up in my face. This person said, 'Nah, didn't like the last movie she did.'
One woman came up to me at a lecture and observed that I was much fatter than on television; I think I look better onscreen than in real life. It's the lights.
He sounded to me like he's supposed to be the savior of jazz. Sometimes people speak as though someone asked them a question. Well, no one asked him a question.
People are going to bash you while you're alive, and they're going to bash you when you're gone.
You'll always have someone attacking you in some way. But it's weird from someone who's never met you.
When a guy would write some scathing article about me, that used to really bother me. I didn't get it. I'm like, What is that? You don't know me... That ate me up.
No one wants to be lectured at.
Some will criticize me no matter what I do.
Sometimes, I think 'The Spectator' is calculated to embarrass me.
I have had people come up to me in the street - one woman actually told me she hated my accent, she can't believe I'm on the telly and my accent is so annoying. I ended up laughing because I thought, 'this person doesn't know me but she felt she could come up and slate my accent.'
I don't like it when I go to a restaurant and I'm lectured from the menu.
I don't like to be talked about, especially by somebody that doesn't know me.
It really bugs me that someone will tell me, after I spent 20 years being educated, how I'm supposed to think.
Getting a moral lecture from the fashion industry is like Jeffrey Dahmer criticising your diet.
In most cases, no one asks what I think, and so for me to be ready to volunteer it unprompted, I have to feel very ready to accept whatever is coming next.
My favorite review described me as the cinematic equivalent of junk mail. I don't know what that means, but it sounds like a dig.
