Willard Scott Quotes

A lot of things which come with a high profile will always be criticised one way or another.

Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do. Even if you go out there and try to make the most vanilla, non-offensive TV show possible, people are going to criticize you for doing that. It's just part of the game.

But I think, if you're in the spotlight, people are going to say bad things, and that's just the way it is.

The people with mean things to say, say them. At the end of the day, the mean things and the good things only drive viewership. So what do you want? You want the ratings.

Getting on the cover of TIME guarantees the existence of opposition in the future.

I could never have imagined that firing 67 people on national television would actually make me more popular, especially with the younger generation.

I feel like everybody is against Floyd Mayweather. I don't get any respect.

I guess I'm entertaining; I guess I'm interesting. I guess the things that I say sell papers. I guess they sell magazines. I don't know.

There was no real controversy with All In The Family. That came from the people on the business end.

I got a lot of criticism for going back on 'Survivor' to play 'Survivor: All Stars.'

Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.

I can go into restaurants and a whole table will get up and clap if they recognize me, because they love Fox News. Other places - or even the same place - people will turn the other way.

The higher your profile becomes, the more aware you are that people out there might hate you.

It would be thrilling if I could be boycotted or something. I think that's part of the thrill Madonna gets, when you know you've hit a nerve. But that doesn't scare me. To me what would be a lot scarier would be like appearing on an episode of 'Full House' or something.

Are people angry with me? Sure, anything you do in your life, people are going to be angry at you.

Coming from The Disney Channel, anything I do is going to offend somehow, somewhere, somehow.

When you watch these reality shows, the person that is hated on the most is usually the one that gets the most shine.

I don't really get hate mail, which surprises me, but people have better things to do than to write hate mail to somebody who writes a book about hating everything, I guess.

I love the press; I even like the people that don't like me. If it wasn't for those people, no one would know who I was and I wouldn't have a gig.

I never had any backlash from the model-turned-actor thing.

If you're in the public eye, people are going to take shots at you.

I got a lot of publicity, but it steamrolled. Event organizers weren't used to that kind of behavior, so later, they tightened the rules.

I believe in wishing my colleagues and other celebs in a manner that brings my wit out and gives people a talking point. But there are people who love and those who hate you. That's part of a celeb's life.

When you get into this line of work, you're in public office, you expect you're gonna have cheap shots taken at you. That's part of the process.

And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever.