Virgil van Dijk Quotes

People are going to take shots at you for everything you did bad, and they forget about all the good things you did. They do it to everyone. They're going to do it to me, they've done it to all of them. They did it to Tom Landry. Are you kidding me? Tom Landry? With the fedora? Come on. They did it to Tom Landry.

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

There is an environment where someone is always looking for someone to make an error. They're always looking not for the good things, the wonderful things the president and first lady are doing, they're looking for an error or to criticize. And it's not conducive to good work.

No one ever talks about the good in me; they just say that I'm spoiled.

Nobody has been criticized as much as I have.

It's unbelievable that people have the time and inclination to be as negative as they are on a public platform about people who accomplish whatever they do in the public eye.

People are much more inclined to believe and say bad things about you if you're famous.

In the end of the day, you are human. Film is a job which is not an individual job; you have tons and tons of people behind you - you have a whole crew of people working. But, an actor is the face of a film, so you get all of the good things, but you get the bad things, also.

Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!

Most difficult is the labeling by other people that models are empty-headed bodies. I think if you look for negativity, you can find it anywhere.

The moment our youth succeed, we try to figure out how to tear them down.

Apparently, the things I do outside of the football are not taken as positives. I don't care, but sometimes it amazes me.

I know what people think I am. People think I'm dumb. People think I party all the time. People think I'm ignorant.

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.

Everybody appears to look down on Bieber. No person able to write a grammatical sentence about Justin Bieber actually thinks him worthy of the sentence.

I can't go anywhere without someone judging me.

Some people hate the sight of me as soon as they see me on television. They loathe the look of me, and I accept that from the days of variety. I would walk on and some people would open a newspaper and think, 'He's first on, so he can't be any good.' I accept that.

It's kind of hard to spend long hours trying to help people and then find out that the favorite game of the columnist is to sit back and second guess you and try to find something that you did wrong.

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 with anybody who's doing well in the public eye or whatever, there's always gonna be a shift because people don't wanna see somebody happy all the time. And they're gonna try to take shots at people.

[Characterizing Harry S Truman:] Stupid!

If you get anything done, you will be criticized

Cleveland gets crapped on a lot.

You are always going to have people criticizing, in one way or another, for their own personal reason.

When you have something special, it's like everybody picks apart words. They'll pick apart a moment in a picture and take something that's special and trash it.