Francis Ford Coppola Quotes

When I was 14 or 15, I was in a small troupe for teenagers, and I heard somebody say, 'Oh, she'll never get anywhere. She's too common.'

All my life, I heard, 'Stop daydreaming,' 'Get over yourself,' 'You'll never get there,' 'Aim lower,' 'You'll hurt yourself,' from teachers, family, and friends.

It doesn't feel good when you're put down, and especially for no uncertain reason.

My high school coach was a bit of a jerk.

Though I have tremendous support from lots of people, there are so many others waiting to tear me down.

School was kind of rough for me. People weren't always the nicest with what I was doing.

It's been so difficult to watch people criticize me and my intentions.

Is encouragement what the poet needs? Open question. Maybe he needs discouragement. In fact, quite a few of them need more discouragement, the most discouragement possible.

In high school, people wanted to find the worst in me.

Well, you know, certain - for one reason, I think that the intervention process is a good process for most people, but for me, it just looked like a bunch of my friends trying to get back at me and sit around taking jabs at me, you know, when I couldn't defend myself.

I try not to read the blogs or what people say about me. Because that's what brings everybody down - no matter what you do, you're always going to have haters.

It's sometimes the random people that say things that aren't so nice, but that's okay.

Whether it is your height, your weight or your skin, someone is going to pick on something and make fun of it. My legs were just a more obvious target.

Teachers didn't like me very much. They thought I was just this punk kid and they always wanted to kick me out.

I was called fat and ugly in the press almost my entire life. I understand that being judged by others comes with the territory, but it broke my heart and ruined my self-esteem.

It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots.

You can get a million comments about how beautiful you look and how awesome you are, but the one comment that says they hate you and you're ugly is the one that sticks.

Believe it or not, one teacher used to call me a giant spastic for not being able to play football.

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing.

It's hard to make out the difference between insults and bad advice.

People will make mean comments. People are going to say that you're fat, that you're this, that you're that. You just have to be comfortable in your own skin.

I get criticized for anything I do.

School was not a place I enjoyed.

There's always going to be somebody who takes a dislike to you and you can't waste time worrying about it.

I just didn't like going to school.