“It’s fascinating the effect a bad review has on you and those around you. Friends and family tend to flap around saying: ‘It’s only one person’s opinion, what does it matter?’ But that’s rubbish. If you get a really good review somewhere, people don’t say: ‘Hey, don’t bother getting excited, that’s only one person’s opinion.’ People tell you to be thick-skinned, to rise above it, but I don’t think you can. Bad reviews hurt like hell and that’s all there is to it. Now I know why so many actors say they never read them at all.” – The Observer (UK) 08/20/00