Daily Inspiration Quote by Kim Cattrall

Cattrall’s line is a neat little self-own that doubles as a boundary. It’s funny because it admits the one thing celebrities are trained to deny: the public gets inside your head. Reviews aren’t just information; they’re mood-altering drugs. Bad ones don’t simply “sting,” they flatten you. Good ones don’t simply “validate,” they bloat you. She compresses that whole emotional economy into two blunt outcomes, devastated or big-headed, and in doing so makes the supposedly rational act of “taking feedback” look like a rigged game.

The intent is protective, but not in a precious way. By framing it as a lose-lose, she sidesteps the culture of performing indifference while also refusing the expectation that artists should metabolize everyone’s opinions with Zen composure. There’s subtext here about labor, too: actors do the work months before a critic files a take. A review arrives late, when the performance is already sealed, turning critique into something closer to judgment than guidance.

Context matters: coming from an actress whose career is inseparable from celebrity discourse (and, famously, the chatter that swirls around Sex and the City), the line reads like hard-earned media literacy. It’s also a quiet flex. Not reading reviews implies a kind of autonomy: the audience can talk, the critics can score, but she won’t outsource her self-worth to the comment section with a masthead. The joke lands because it’s honest about ego without romanticizing it.