Fred Allen Quotes

If I hadn't been told I was garbage, I wouldn't have learned how to show people I'm talented. And if everyone had always laughed at my jokes, I wouldn't have figured out how to be so funny. If they hadn't told me I was ugly, I never would have searched for my beauty. And if they hadn't tried to break me down, I wouldn't know that I'm unbreakable.

You have to develop a very thick skin.

You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know it's not good.

Hope for the best, survive the worst, find humor wherever you can.

Somebody has said something - or not just somebody, hundreds, thousands of people have something negative to say about me. I have learned that if I'm going to continue to do what I'm supposed to do and move forward, then I cannot let that faze me.

Naysayers have been saying stuff my whole career.

I come from a background that, when I win, people try to put me down, and when I lose, people try to put me down. I accept that, and I actually find it kind of funny.

I know there is a certain amount of negativity I have to deal with.

A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.

Cancer is probably the most unfunny thing in the world, but I'm a comedian, and even cancer couldn't stop me from seeing the humor in what I went through.

I'll let criticism spoil breakfast, but I don't let it affect my lunch.

Don’t worry about it. We’re used to being told to go screw ourselves. And that’s from the people who actually like us. You should hear what our enemies say. (Nykyrian)

Haters are my motivators

The first time I was on TV, on "Flight of the Conchords," someone put up a YouTube clip and said, 'You're too ugly to be on TV.' And I was like, 'That is exactly why it's a good thing that I'm on TV.'

Never mind what haters say, ignore them 'til they fade away.

My father always used to say, "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger," - 'til the accident.

Normally, I try not to pay attention to my haters, but this time I'd like to talk about it, because my haters are my motivators.

I have used all the manure that has been thrown on me as fertilizer to make me stronger.

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

I'm here because they've killed almost all of us, but not all of us. And that's their mistake, son. That's the flaw in their plan. Because if you don't kill all of us at once, whoever's left are not going to be the weak ones. The strong ones- and only the strong ones- will survive. The bent but unbroken, if you know what I mean. People like me. And people like you.

I've never let the criticism deter me.

Ladies and gentlemen, after what I've been through, I am happy just to be wearing clothes that open in the front.

Negative feedback can make us bitter or better.

Hate will keep you alive where love fails

One Child's courage to survive.