George MacKay Quotes

The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.

I try not to read best-dressed lists or anything like that. For every good thing, there will often be a not-so-nice thing people would say.

I think after doing a few shows now, people are ready to put me down.

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

Whenever you do anything public, you open yourself up to be criticized.

If you keep telling a youngster he is no good, he might begin to doubt himself. A pat on the back could bring the very best out of him.

A lot of things which come with a high profile will always be criticised one way or another.

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.

But I think, if you're in the spotlight, people are going to say bad things, and that's just the way it is.

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

Children who open their lunchboxes and find mothers' handwritten notes telling them how amazingly bright they are tend to falter when they encounter academic difficulties.

If somebody comes up and says something good about you, that is never taken as an adhesive thing like something negative about you.

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.

If you live for the compliments, you'll die by the criticism.

Funny thing, as you become famous, people write less nice things about you.

I have worked really hard to get to where I am, and I like it when I read praise, and I get upset when I read bad messages. It's all part of being human.

I want to hear good things. I don't want to hear any negative things about me. It makes me look bad. It makes me feel bad. It makes my family look bad.

As for myself, I met with as much success as I ever could have wanted. In other words, I was enthusiastically run-down by every critic of the period.

Lavish praise on people and people will flourish; criticize people and they'll shrivel up.

Often our self-esteem is bruised by criticism.

People can say whatever they want to about me... and I don't get too affected. But I didn't want them to think I was a failure.

Success? You can't get a big head about it. When people stare at me, they could be whispering to their friend, 'That guy sucks! Have you seen him before? He's horrible.'

We all seek approval, and our mother's seal is usually the most important. The nitty gritty is that we have to accept ourselves, even if it is just to be ready for the next cut-down. Mom's blessing or not.

You've got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you're gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn't work that way.

When I get hate mail, I get really down on myself, and I read it to my mom, and my mom is like, 'So what? Who cares? These people don't know you, so you can't take the praise or the hate to heart.'