Cynicism places the cynic at the center seat of judgement with the self appointed authority to criticize and condemn.
Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism.
When we criticize people, their consciences console them. When we love them, their consciences indict them.
I get emotionally attached with every film I do, and that stops me from being critical. I can't fight my emotions.
The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
A great leader never fears criticism and welcomes them with openness and love as if they are the beauty of the journey.
I'm telling you, every film I've ever made has been hated by the U.K. critics.
I was reluctant to be critical of the United States because I thought the United States could do no wrong; that the government could not lie to its people.
As an actor, it easy to be so self-critical, saying to yourself, 'Am I good enough? Am I good looking enough? Am I smart enough?'
Today's global landscape is increasingly interconnected. China and the Middle East play critical roles towards international peace and security.
I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction you're going to get bashed by critics.
I've always wanted to be on a show that's well respected and had critical acclaim and that people like to watch, and at the same time find something that, for me, as an actor, is interesting and challenging.
I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
There is still an element of the BBC that feels it is somehow wrong, or it will be open to criticism, if it makes more money.
Movies are a commercial medium. We don't make movies to impress our friends and critics. It's an expensive medium. We have to gain money from it.
A lot of the work in United States is highly critical of technology. I'm using 15,000 watts of power and 18 different pieces of electronic equipment to say that.
I'd like Muslims to look at their religion as a set of beliefs that they can appraise critically and pick and choose from.
People really, really hate their religion being criticized. It's as though you've said they had an ugly face; they seem to identify personally with it.
Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs.
The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.
You know, you want everything you do, obviously, to be a success critically and commercially. But what you find out as you go along is that everything won't.