LeRoy Neiman Quotes

If you live for the compliments, you'll die by the criticism.

I never wish for critics.

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

I don't care what people are saying about me, good or bad, in blogs or on Twitter or in the media. There will always be people who don't like you and don't like your books. Ignore them.

Generally I don't care about what people say. I have to be clear with myself. When everything goes well, people celebrate you, when you make mistakes people criticize you.

If people love what I do, that's fantastic. And there's always going to be people who don't, and if I focus on that, then it'll destroy me. I have to just worry about my own opinion and the opinions of the people I'm working with and people who are close to me. Otherwise, it'll drive me crazy.

I have a folder where I keep all the articles the critics have written about me. It makes me feel good.

You can't listen to every little thing that's bad or good said about you. I always used that - whenever I heard it, I used it as fuel to motivate me, man. That's how I was raised, whenever I came up.

Ever since I was young I've always been told how good I am.

I'm not the sort of person who if everyone thinks you're fabulous you thrive on it.

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

I really don't care to be criticized. I stay in my lane and do me.

I realized that everybody is a critic. They're going to say they hate you, they love you, they this, they that, but at the end of the day, no matter what, I have to be confident in myself as a man and an artist.

You don't need to be criticised to play well or things like that.

I want everybody to know that I don't care who you are, where you're from, if you're popular or not: we all have haters. But you have to be resilient. You have to not allow them to have the power over you, where you start believing the things they say.

When people you don't know say nice things about you, if you allow yourself, even subconsciously, to attach a shred of meaning to it, when the opposite happens, when people you don't know say bad things about you, you can't attach that same meaning.

Why would I care what other people are thinking? I don't care what an audience thinks of me.

I cannot be so bad when everybody is so fond of me.

I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?

I can easily ignore my detractors and feel the people who respond favorably.

Even if I would have left on a good note, there is still going to be people who don't like you, who don't like what you stand for. I can't worry about that.

I guess other people's compliments motivate you.

I was actually picked on as a kid. I guess in high school it started to change for me. I guess being picked on made a lasting impression on me so I never - whenever somebody calls me handsome or anything like that, I never take it for granted. I appreciate it every time I hear it, so it's never something that gets old.

If I read or listened to critics of our music, I'd have been discouraged a long time ago.

When I was a kid, nobody told me I was good-looking. I wish they had. I would've had a better time.