Kevin Costner Quote

When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.

Gwyneth Paltrow

The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can.

Russell Crowe

• Praise

I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least all but two or three. Life is much simpler ignoring reviews and the nasty people who write them. Critics should find meaningful work.

John Grisham

Polling is merely an instrument for gauging public opinion. When a president or any other leader pays attention to poll results, he is, in effect, paying attention to the views of the people. Any other interpretation is nonsense.

George Gallup

The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced, if Rome doesn't want to become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Cinema is like a public square.

Akira Kurosawa

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

Jean Cocteau

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

Mark Twain

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

Oscar Wilde

• Artist

It's what's left in life, to work with interesting people.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

So many people supported me through my public life and I will never forget them.

Princess Diana

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

William Somerset Maugham

• People
• Praise

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

Robert Frost

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

Anton Chekhov

I see what keeps people young: work!

Ted Turner

The older one gets in this profession, the more people there are with whom one would never work again.

Liv Ullmann

I liked the theater. I liked the people. I liked the time that we worked.

Jeremy Irons

I do not want to act unless I have a a great intimacy with the people I'm working with.

Armand Assante

Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.

Christopher Alexander

I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent.

Colin Firth