Fabio Quagliarella Quotes

I've been forced to deal with my character assassination.

For the past two years, the only thing the 'Idol' machine has been doing has been maliciously attacking my name.

A lot of nasty and untrue things have been said about me.

There's really not much that people can pick on me for my work, so obviously they find other reasons to write something bad about me. I mean, people enjoy reading bad stuff about people.

People trash talk me.

I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.

There are groups of haters who always try to malign my image. They question my character and make all kinds of false announcements. It hurts because they assume things and without any proof in hand.

Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.

Every hateful statement ever made about me is a dirty lie.

Insults are the business of the court.

Very ugly things were said about me.

People have already dirtied my name too much.

An anonymous person, which is 99 percent of the people on Twitter, can say my face looks like a foot or I'm Ted Cruz's doppelganger. That doesn't affect me.

For those uninitiated in the art of guerrilla war tactics: Smear campaigns never run fair or square. So just to set the record straight: I'm not a drug addict, I don't smoke or drink and I'm most definitely not a lesbian.

Nobody has a right to call me or the prime minister a thief and a liar.

As you have seen, I am being viciously attacked with lies and smears.

Slander is the tool of cowards.

They called me a 'rapist' and a 'recluse.' I'm not a recluse.

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.

You don't just decide to destroy a person by making up stuff, and no one at 'SNL' is writing to go after someone.

Sometimes I see people writing the most ridiculous things about me.

We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is freedom of extortion and blackmail.

You get built up and put on a pedestal and then people want to bring you down. It can be hurtful. Some people try to make me look bad or not a nice person but it's completely false.

I was falsely arrested twice, slandered and defamed.

Once somebody is known, it seems as though anybody anywhere can say anything about them. Whereas if I simply stopped someone in the street and criticised their clothes, their work, their parents, their inner being, I'd be sued and I'd be thrown in prison.