Dave Barry Quotes

I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.

I don't care whether people say, ''The Office' is rubbish, 'Extras' is worse, 'Flanimals' is a waste of time. He's not funny; he never has been. I hate him.' I don't mind that at all. In fact, not only do I expect it, I celebrate it, because I think the haters are really important.

Even if you go out there and try to make the most vanilla, non-offensive TV show possible, people are going to criticize you for doing that. It's just part of the game. You can't let it get to you.

There's always gonna be criticisms, no matter what movie you do, no matter what. You can't please everybody, and it doesn't matter what the genre is. There's always gonna be a positive to a negative comment.

Everybody who does anything for the public can be criticized. There's always someone who doesn't like it.

People are going to bash you while you're alive, and they're going to bash you when you're gone.

Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do. Even if you go out there and try to make the most vanilla, non-offensive TV show possible, people are going to criticize you for doing that. It's just part of the game.

If you are truly offended by an 80-year-old man saying you're not funny, then you're probably not funny.

I can't see why anyone would want to be in politics because you get so much criticism.

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

Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

As an actor, I've always said, half the audience is going to love you, half is going to hate you so just live with it. It's easier that way.

I haven't read a single word that a critic has written about me since 1994.

Recently, my personal advisors have been telling me to go to America. Actually, people have been walking up to me in the street and telling me to sod off, but that's the same thing, isn't it?

But I think, if you're in the spotlight, people are going to say bad things, and that's just the way it is.

I think there are some folks who don't particularly like what I have to say, but on the whole, the reaction has been very positive.

It's funny, in some of the interviews I've seen that were done for the film, some people say things like, 'Oh, I was never a very big Jim Woodring fan. I've never thought his work was that great.'

When people approach me about my films it is usually to tell me how much they hate them.

We are at a massive club here at Manchester United and if things aren't going as well as they should be then there is always going to be people wanting to have a dig and a pop at you.

People who like my stuff and know what my agenda is have never mistaken me for being racist or poking fun at the wrong thing.

There's a lot of hating on social media - and I'm not the only one, I'm 100 percent sure. Pick the best player possible - all-time or one who's playing today - everybody has something to say.

I think you can make jokes about anything. But you have to accept that there will be people who don't like it. And they are completely within their rights, just as you are completely within your rights to say whatever you want to say. They're within their rights to react how they're going to react.

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

Being a public figure a lot of people will really love what you do, but you know there is also a ton of people who will hate on it.