Lily James Quotes

If you have lost matches and not played to potential, criticism will come your way. Critics and media will say what they see and take you on. They will say things which you might not like to hear. But that's professional sport.

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

Over in the UK, the music press can be brutal. They can say wonderful things about you one week, and the next week, you're in the can.

I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.

To pick up the paper and read about yourself getting slammed, that doesn't start your day off right.

When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played.

Sometimes you want to read what people write about you, obviously.

When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.

Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

Well the press and things like that are pretty hard core, but I don't pay too much attention to that.

There's so much crap talked about acting.

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

Long ago, I had to sort of learn to have a thick skin to read some of the things you read in the papers and to also keep my ego in check when you read some really flattering things in the papers.

Frankly, you're heading down a dangerous path if you take seriously what people say about you, and I don't read most of it.

Anything people say about me I don't care. I really don't care. You read so much terrible stuff about yourself it sort of just ends up washing over.

If there is ever one thing you learn as a professional footballer, you have a lot of critics and you have the chance to silence your critics.

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

We don't read a lot of what people say about us.

A lot of people have been very dismissive of me. I'm hardly the darling of the NME. It used to get me down a bit, but you reach a point where you can laugh it off.

I don't care for media or people being critical of me.

I read one thing, and 100 people can say good things then you read one bad thing that says you're the worst and you believe them.

It was okay for people to write negative things about me just as long as they spelled my name right.

In public life, criticism cannot be avoided completely.

There's no shortage of opinions about our agency, just like every other agency up here - and just like the Congress. I'd encourage our folks not to get too hung up on what I consider to be the noise on TV and in social media.

I choose to let the press say whatever they want and let people say whatever they want.