Thomas Rhett Quotes

I was once called a hack, and when you put as much emotion into a piece of work as I do, to be called a hack is really heartbreaking.

If I read or listened to critics of our music, I'd have been discouraged a long time ago.

Honestly, it's hard to deal with the haters, but something that has helped me is not to focus on the haters and to focus on the nice people!

I love reader mail, and I do read it, but I won't read hate mail.

As an artist, you put so much into what you do and it can all be torn down in a nanosecond.

When you're making pictures out of heartfelt passion, it hurts when someone calls them a calculated business move.

I know I'm being judged, and anyone who works in the public eye will get some negativity at some point. It can be tough and it hurts. I can be very tough on myself. Occasionally, I hear or read something cruel and I'm shocked.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It's easy to get discouraged in life.

I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.

If someone's going to talk about me, I'd want it to be positively. The way many write, you'd think only bad things were interesting. If we don't think positive, what's the use? It's a lot more fun, you know.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.

I think you achieve a lot more through love than negativity.

It is hurtful to read things which are not true. I am learning to focus only on my work and not pay heed to any negativity.

There's always going to be people saying negative and positive things. If you let all that into you, and you're always contemplating that and thinking about that, I'm sure that can get to you. I try not to do that.

I used to take it much more to heart. Now I realise that negativity has almost everything to do with the person delivering it and very little to do with you yourself.

It's taken me a long, long time to figure out how to deal with negativity, because it used to really upset me. I was always that girl that, if I was performing in the club and there was one person not paying attention or not liking me, the whole club could be packed with people loving me, but I'd be obsessed with that one person.

What sells more, criticism or compliments? What do people like more? They enjoy blood.

It can beat an artist down when people say bad things about you.

I like when people talk negative.

There are always going to be your supporters, and then there are going to be haters. I kind of laugh at them.

I kind of dread any kind of critical response, just because it's always painful in some way. Even if it's 80 percent good, it's the 20 percent that's bad that you remember - and that's a higher number than I usually get, 80 percent would be amazing.

Love your haters - they're your biggest fans

Acting is so difficult for me that, unless the work is of a certain stature in my mind, unless I reach the expectations I have of myself, I'm unhappy. Then it's a miserable existence. I'm putting a piece of myself out there. If it doesn't do anything, I feel so ashamed. I'm afraid I'll be the kind of actor who thought he would make a difference and didn't. Right now, though, I feel like I made a little bit of difference.

Footballers are more likely to work better if they get a pat on their back from the boss. A knife in the back is never the answer.

The criticism hurts sometimes and I worry about the effect on my family.