Freddy Adu Quotes

The hard part about getting much attention is that people start dissecting what you do.

There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke and not seem worthy of all the attention it's getting.

Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.

You get held to a high standard, almost an unmaintainable standard, in the public eye that you don't even come close to touching.

Fame is a magnifying glass

Once you have had success there are always people focusing on why it happened. Inevitably, there is a lot of scrutiny when you don't achieve the same again.

There's loads of eyes and expectations. People are almost waiting for you to make a mistake so they can say, 'Oh, she's a one-hit wonder!'

I think, sometimes, if you get too much attention, then everybody watches you more closely, and they make these broad generalizations about you that aren't really true.

The more successful you become, the more known you become, everything you say is minutely scrutinised a lot.

There is a lot of envy, there is a lot of flak that we as children of the industry get for what we may have achieved or not achieved. We're under constant surveillance.

It took me awhile to learn the public eye was on me.

You cannot have adoration without being criticized.

There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.

Success is never bad in Hollywood. It is what you do with success that will dog you.

Being a Brady comes with it's pleasures and its baggage. I'm not one given to a lack of privacy and invasion.

But once you become successful, everyone has an idea of what you should do.

You pick up some fans and a handful of haters along the way.

In print, people can do anything to you. Everything you do is picked apart. People love it; they're waiting for you to make a mistake.

Once you have a lot of success, you become a target in many ways.

If you're in the public eye, people are going to take shots at you.

Fame isn't healthy for a writer.

We are at a massive club here at Manchester United and if things aren't going as well as they should be then there is always going to be people wanting to have a dig and a pop at you.

We will always have our critics because we are Manchester United. It has been like that since I have been here.

With whatever I do, there's always going to be hate. There's always going to be people who are going to say, 'He's not as good as his dad.'

I have played for the national team many times, so I am used to good things - and bad things - being said about me.