Bryan Robson Quotes

I get criticized for anything I do.

I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people bother to write if they hate what I do?

When I first came along in the business, they didn't really like the idea of my name being Raquel.

I got a lot of very bad hate on social media from some people from my school. I think people thought I changed because they saw me on TV. They weren't close enough to know that I was still the same human being... When I walked at graduation, I got booed. It was kind of stupid.

Nobody has been criticized as much as I have.

No matter how much good you do, there will always be a few per cent of people who don't support you.

No one wants to be the creator with the reputation for bad mouthing sponsors!

The fact that so many comics were waiting to jump on the bandwagon of hate toward me - what is it about me that engages this kind of behavior? I began to see it: My cockiness, my lack of hanging out with other comics. A lot of that wasn't my fault.

When you dig down and look at the people who are vocal in their criticism of me, it's a small number.

You're always going to have your detractors.

There's not one person at any club I've been at who would turn around and say I'm a bad egg, it's only been at Aston Villa. That speaks volumes.

Once you go outside your natural audience, there are tons of people that don't like you.

When I've gotten criticism, it's that it's too long, too soft, didn't hit the government hard enough. Then when I do hit the government, they go, What's he doing hitting the government?

We're definitely going to get some flak each and every day, whether it's social-media keyboard warriors, or people in person.

When I was playing good, nobody was saying I was playing good. When I was playing bad, I would be the first one on the front of the journal.

Did I ever get booed? I don't think I ever got booed.

We have our detractors. If we didn't, that would be weird. That would make me feel, 'Oh God, we must be really bland.' You have to have detractors.

Getting booed off, definitely not the best feeling.

We actors get a lot of love, but at times, we get double the amount of negativity for no reason whatsoever.

Criticism is beyond your control and is a collective group of people deciding things about you that may or may not be true. Some critics look for more when there's no need to. They have a dotto-dot picture of me they are intent on filling in.

I've never been universally loved from the beginning.

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.

I get hate mail. I get bad mail. People say they will boycott you or the team.

I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.