John Hall Quotes

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?

When they boo you, you know they mean you.

The haters always scream the loudest.

Of course, I think that people are just waiting for that time when I make a mistake and they're gonna jump on it.... There's gonna be haters.

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.

I got more mail than anybody on the history of The Today Show, but half of it was to get me off the air.

When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.

Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.

I don't care who you are, you hear those boos.

Celebrity despicability is a precious thing.

Never was I booed.

I was praised in the U.S. and heavily, brutally criticized in France.

Are people angry with me? Sure, anything you do in your life, people are going to be angry at you.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

I tried not to listen very much to the critics. I know that whenever you do something, you must have a lot of critics, or it means that you haven't done anything. I never really bothered much and I don't care.

I don't really get hate mail, which surprises me, but people have better things to do than to write hate mail to somebody who writes a book about hating everything, I guess.

I don't know that anybody has walked up to me in the street or in a store or in the grocery and said to me, 'I hope you bomb Assad.' Certainly plenty have said, 'No; thumbs down, thumbs down, thumbs down.'

You will get the most attention from those who hate you. No friend, no admirer and no partner will flatter you with as much curiosity.

I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.

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.

People who are satisfied with a prospective [presidential] appointment do not make any particular noise about it, but those who do not like it clamor.

There are always people screeching and upset that I did this or didn't do that. Basically, they're upset that I didn't rewrite an earlier book they particularly liked.

And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever.

I'm OK with being booed.

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