George Benson Quotes

As an actor, you can certainly, at any moment and at any time, discover 400 people who think you're stupid, fat and ugly.

I don't mind about the boos from the audience.

Actually, I was a little rejected at first. I kind of got slapped down.

I've always been criticized, right from the beginning! Right from the very first day I was born... They said I wasn't right for the part!

A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.

There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.

Look up the definition of rejection in the dictionary, get really comfortable with it, and then maybe you can go into acting.

Once you become a comedian, you accept that people are just going to yell stuff at you.

Seeing bored-looking fans staring at you while you DJ is about as horrible as it gets.

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.

You never know when you put out an album that's unique whether it'll get beat up for it or not.

I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.

Every time you have to come up with a new body of work for a new show, you're aware that people are just ready to rip you apart, they're just waiting for you to fall or make the slightest trip up.

When people approach me about my films it is usually to tell me how much they hate them.

The judgment, criticism, and rejection you face as an actor can be overwhelming.

I was booed at the premiere of 'Miss Julie,' a remarkably stimulating experience.

Being an actor, you always feel like you're swimming upstream. People are going, 'No, they don't like you. They don't like the way you look. They don't like how old you are.'

When I was 14 or 15, I was in a small troupe for teenagers, and I heard somebody say, 'Oh, she'll never get anywhere. She's too common.'

When you play a show or festival, people know what they're getting; they want it. Then you're thrown onto a show where people are watching TV in their houses, and whether they ask for it or not, we're being played in front of them. There's a lot of negative feedback.

Around the age of 14, I was very discouraged from a coach. It was my first youth club team while playing soccer. She told me at the time that I wasn't good enough to play on the team, that I would never get into the game.

Being an actress and a singer, you get more 'nos' than you get 'yes.' You get more rejection than you do anything else.

Did I ever get booed? I don't think I ever got booed.

You don't want to let people down, and that's so hard because you're never going to please everybody. There's always going to be someone that's a naysayer.

I've played music that's terrible in the past, and not everyone likes you, which is fine.

The critics gave me bad reviews on every movie I made.