Neil Patrick Harris Quotes

I think it was 89.2% cheers and 11.8% boos, but I'm used to that.

This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.

A lot of people loved to hate my character on 24. I want to be the character people love to love.

You don't get a standing ovation and get boos, by the way. They don't go hand in hand.

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.

When someone goes, 'Oh, this group is really pissed off at what you said,' there's not a piece of my body that goes, 'Sweet!' That means I did it wrong. I'm just trying to make people laugh.

Lots of people like Seth MacFarlane. Many other people like watching the Oscars. But nobody likes both, not even Seth MacFarlane, who has no idea what the Oscars are.

The public makes a hit.

Fans don't boo nobodies.

If you want to be loved by everyone, don't go into politics.

I've written some happy songs but I can't ever play them in public because everybody will just start throwing up.

I've learned that you can never predict what will happen to a film. You can never predict if people will love it, if they'll hate it. It's an act of ego if you're hoping for everyone to love the film and tell you how great you are.

Every time you do something, people are going to like it, people are going to hate it. You tend to make the movies on the basis you are making them for the people who are going to like them and not worrying too much about people who don't like them.

Most of my town hall meetings had always been love fests, and some of my guys used to complain: 'I'd like for somebody to yell at you a bit.'

I look back at 'Saturday Night Live' and I think, some people didn't like me doing 'Weekend Update.' Who cares? A lot of people did. When you're reaching that many people, you're not going to have everybody like you.

If we're a hit, let 'em say anything they want.

Before I entered politics, when I used to appear in public everyone would applaud; now half of the people applaud, and half of them boo.

Everyone wants a whack at the speech.

Everyone wishes to catch popular applause for himself, and readily represses the fame of others.

I’ve never listened to a speech with a greater sense of approval.

I just do the cream-of-the-crop songs in my show. We just bowl them over; they love us. It just keeps getting better.

I have been very pleased at the response we have got for 'SVSC.'

Everyone hated the title 'The Full Monty' until they saw the film did really well and then loved the title.

That you get booed belongs to professional sports.

What's great about the way 'Shame''s been received is that I kept on thinking there's no way this film will be received well since I've had such a good time.