Uday Kiran Quotes

Bad reviews come with everything. I've been getting them my whole life.

Obviously there will be a backlash. If you believe the hype you have to believe a backlash too. Any criticism we get, is always stuff we've already criticised ourselves.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

I got booed by my own fans when I came on in my first game for England. You go through things that are ridiculous. But you get to the stage you realise everyone's got an opinion.

The critics gave me bad reviews on every movie I made.

I don't mind about the boos from the audience.

No matter how much good you do, there will always be a few per cent of people who don't support you.

No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.

I'm in a position where whatever I do, I can get my head handed to me. I'm in a position to fail because there is a whole group of people out there who want me to fail. It's a weird vibe.

When people approach me about my films it is usually to tell me how much they hate them.

Let’s face it. Everybody considers you to be a loser.

People are quick to be like, 'You're irrelevant. You're a flop; you're washed up.'

When I was 14 or 15, I was in a small troupe for teenagers, and I heard somebody say, 'Oh, she'll never get anywhere. She's too common.'

The thing about social media is that someone's going to hate what you do no matter what you do.

Did I ever get booed? I don't think I ever got booed.

You don't want to let people down, and that's so hard because you're never going to please everybody. There's always going to be someone that's a naysayer.

I've noticed that a lot of people who criticize me are from the U.K. - both in the press and on social media. Since I've been here, I've gotten a lot of stares on the street, but in the States, people always come up to me and say, 'I love your hair' or 'I love your dress, you're so cute.' Here, people just look at me like I'm a crazy person.

It is funny now, but in the beginning of my career, some of the films failed at the box office, and filmmakers stopped casting me, saying I am bringing bad luck to their film.

I feel like the criticism and bad stuff don't come unless I'm playing bad.

Dreams require down payments. Dreams are free, but the journey isn't. There is a price to pay. First, you must pay the price of dealing with criticism from people who matter. Ralph Waldo Emerson said, 'Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.' Second, you must pay the price of overcoming your fears. Failure, rejection, and looking foolish are common fears - but they are just feelings that can be conquered and removed from your thoughts. Finally, you must be willing to pay the price of hard work in order to realize your dream.

Many times during auditions, I was told that I couldn't carry a note with a bucket, and that I sure couldn't play the piano.

A writer is hoisted up onto a pedestal only to scrutinize him more closely and conclude that it was a mistake to put him up there in the first place.

I used to be a chemical-engineering student, but I started studying acting, and I went for a cattle call, up against hundreds of people. They tore me down because I was too tall. They said "How tall are you?" "6'5"." "Next."

There will be people who hate everything you do. And some people will really love it. But that's not really different from the people who really hate it.

Mistake, mistake, mistake. A strange word: stinging, somehow.