Nicolas Winding Refn Quotes

I've been called every name in the book.

Unfortunately, I'm used to the insults.

People trash talk me.

I don't care if someone calls me names.

I was used to football supporters hammering me and I thought my name was Graham Potter-Boo at one point.

The worst thing about being the laureate has been the attitude of a tiny minority of adults who haven't liked some of the things I'm supposed to have said and who have used it as an opportunity to be verbally abusive and nasty, but I haven't let it rule my world!

All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'

If they are laughing at you, how can they bludgeon you to death?

Somebody saying something offensive to you or insulting to you is not pleasant, but it's part of life.

I don't lose any sleep over people calling me names.

Yes, everybody has bullied me. They kept saying I was nasal and what not.

Criticism does not constitute violence.

When people make fun of me in their shows, I don't say anything.

With my upbringing and where I grew up, people slagged people. If you slagged them, they'd slag you back... I know it pales in comparison to genuine issues that people have got, but I've had people slagging my stuff off on my blog and my website for years.

You ignorant little slug!" the Trunchbull bellowed. "You witless weed! You empty-headed hamster! You stupid glob of glue!

One of the things that pushed me over the edge was that people on the Left were calling me names. How many kicks in the teeth do you have to endure.

Everyone in America likely has a bullying story, whether as the victim, bully or as a witness.

Bullying is a terrible, terrible thing.

I have a problem with bullying.

These good Christians do not have the courage to face me. They follow my children around and shout at them, "Your father is a mass murderer" and other terrible epithets.

If she were a man, I would have knocked her flat. Instead I whispered to her, 'Liz, you are as ugly on the inside as you are on the outside.'

Scum!

People shouting abuse has happened for a very long time, and I find it kind of amusing and irrelevant.

People threw food at me and sang songs about how ugly I was.

I'm accustomed to being harassed.