Nani Quotes

It is very annoying - things have been written by people who didn't know me at all or Princess Diana. They were written by people who never knew me or met me. It did make me angry. I just stopped reading the papers.

It's a very strange phenomenon being hated by people you've never met. Some journalists just seem to hate me and everything I do, and it's disconcerting because I've never met this person.

In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennifer Lopez, movies bombed, therefore he must be a sort of thoughtless dilettante, solipsistic consumer blahblahblah. It's hard to shake those sort of narratives.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

Sometimes I see people writing the most ridiculous things about me.

There were a lot of rumors spread about me. Of course, I didn't show up to defend myself, so my absence helped create even more.

I know nothing more annoying when people I don't know jump to conclusions on my person based on nothing but gossip or speculation.

There are some people who have left me negative messages, but they aren't true Chelsea fans.

There will always be people who will criticise you without knowing the facts.

There can be a conspiracy, but the presence of a conspiracy is actually not an excuse for conspiracy thinking.

Rumours are rumours and always happen, not only at Tottenham but every team.

People feel they can just pass judgement with a tweet or with a comment and then you're supposed to change your life for them. I can't worry about what some phantom individual online has to say about me.

Any rumor you can think of, I've been a part of it.

The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.

When someone has an opinion, even if it ends up misquoted, people jump on it.

Insinuations that Ahmed Nur Said Elmi is my brother are absurd and offensive.

It shocks me, the rumors people start: that I have the title because of my boyfriend. If that was the case, I would have gotten the title when I came back years ago and still had the title. He has nothing to do with it.

As a little girl in the '50s, I couldn't wear a purple-and-white flowered skirt with a red blouse - those colors were too loud. My parents were not into that 'We are Negros that wear all beige,' but there was a line you could walk over that could signal vulgar, crass, rather than clever use of color. And that outfit crossed over the line.

Donald Trump talks about everyone behind their backs.

The rumours and link-ups with my co-stars are upsetting. Is it a crime to be a divorcee and a single woman? Does being a divorcee mean you can't have a life?

I keep myself away from people who talk badly about others.

Right from school, I got mockery for the way I look. I took it to heart early on. I admit there were times when I doubted myself.

If I think of a joke that's really dirty and I think it's funny I'll try it but what I've found over the years is they just don't laugh. It doesn't work coming out of my mouth so it's like they taught me 'don't do that. Don't go that way or you'll lose me.'

People have a right to be shocked; the mention of unmentionable things is a kind of participation in them.

Nobody's tried to touch my hair in like, in decades.