Jurnee Smollett Quotes

I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played.

So how critics will perceive your film or your work, or whether your movie is going to make $100 million at the box office, or whether you are going to be winning any awards - well, you have no control over that.

People can criticise all day long, I think I've proven myself, I think I deliver. And I agree, box office does not mean a movie's good, but I feel like I'm making good movies and I'm delivering in box office.

I've had lots of commercial success. I've also had some terrible reviews and some wonderful reviews.

I am not a fool. I know where I stand in terms of box office returns.

When things go well, everyone talks well of you and vice versa. Unfortunately, football is like that.

I've got the public. I don't care about the critics. I did at one time. I don't any more. I did when I needed compliments. But if you get a lot of compliments, you don't need a critic to tell you, 'This should be done another way.'

I think I've done a pretty fantastic job, but of course I want to sell millions of records.

The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people perceive your show or talk about it.

You are damned and praised, or encouraged or discouraged by those who listen to you, and those who come to applaud you. And to me, those people are very important.

Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.

Some people get their books on the best-seller list and then they count the number of weeks, and I just never want to live that way.

It doesn't really matter if this movie's a success or not, because it's already out there.

The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you.

You know, I'll tell you, nothing changed after 'No Strings' for me. A lot of people said, like, 'Your game will be different,' but it wasn't. It really wasn't.

I have learned that I will not pay any attention to anything people say about my movies, because people say things that are all over the place.

Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

I believe it’s my best effort, but it’s not immediately popular.

I'm always like, 'Well, let's not rest on a critical acclaim or on a incredible review or on a great reception.'

Whether the work that I do shall succeed or achieve critical acclaim is for the audience to decide.

I hate good press, and I abhor bad press.

In my career, I've never been a box office name. Granted, a couple of my movies have made a lot of money, but I'd do other movies which make very little money, or they're not seen that much.

No man can honestly sit there and say he doesn't care about what people think, doesn't care if he's got the support of the British public or British fans.

Critics can get you critical acclaim - nothing more than that. Success or failure depends on the public.