Matt Lucas Quotes

I think after doing a few shows now, people are ready to put me down.

I wake up every day and look at my own ugly mug in the mirror and don't think twice about it. The fact that other people might want to look at me still feels funny. It's flattering, but funny.

Whenever you do anything public, you open yourself up to be criticized.

The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you.

When you're under a microscope from an early age, you realize that people aren't always going to like you. And that's OK. And you're going to fail publicly, and that's OK, too.

I want to prove to the skeptics that I'm not a clown. I'm very serious about what I do. I want to be a good ski jumper who has a sense of humor.

I didn't understand how difficult it would be to transition in the public eye and look back at pre-transition videos - it's sort of humiliating and painful.

Being a public figure, you cannot make everyone happy. Some people will criticise your actions, and I cannot stop expressing my opinion based on that.

It's no big deal if I disappoint strangers.

I got heckled off stage in Western Australia at a music festival once.

Funny thing, as you become famous, people write less nice things about you.

Reading nice stuff about you is lovely, but I know it's going to be soul-destroying when you do something that everyone is tearing apart.

We don't read a lot of what people say about us.

I never tried to put myself in situations where I had to be anything other than what people saw on TV.

I'm a confident woman with thick skin, and as a model in the public eye, I'm conditioned to accept criticism.

If you're in the public eye, you're constantly scrutinised. I was called too thin and then too fat when I was overweight. It's just a shame those are the reactions people have.

I'm not trying to come back and change the perception of what people think about me. They can think what they want to, man.

I grew up with gossip mags commenting on how I looked.

I may do some cringey and crazy things, but for crying out loud, I have Nikki Bella calling me out.

How I view my body hasn't been uncomplicated, but that was because my body was discussed and dissected at great length in a very public forum, when I was at a formative age.

A lot of things that were written about me bothered me, like my mentality was not good.

Probably one of the reasons I became a comedian is that you get a chance to control when people laugh at you.

You can be as good as you want with your feet, but when you're making mistakes, the opinions will change immediately.

I just don't care what people like Lily Allen think about stuff.

I realize people feel a complex way about me and how I handle things compared to what I do in the ring.