John Hawkes Quotes

As soon as you get a certain amount of attention, then everybody kinda wants to start taking pot shots at you. All your old friends that supported you don't support you any more.

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

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

I think with anybody who's doing well in the public eye or whatever, there's always gonna be a shift because people don't wanna see somebody happy all the time. And they're gonna try to take shots at people.

Everyone's a critic: when you are doing something good, everybody wants to bring you down, and that's something I've been told. People want to see you do good, but not too good.

Everybody on top has a ton of haters.

People are looking for a way to tear down anyone who is successful in any arena. That's the way fans are.

Judi Dench should be ashamed of herself for being so talented and working so much.

I think people are just haters. When they see people doing well, some people, if there's something wrong, they'll pick at that.

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

You get built up and put on a pedestal and then people want to bring you down. It can be hurtful. Some people try to make me look bad or not a nice person but it's completely false.

No matter how well you do, no matter how successful you are, they're always going to criticize you.

Obviously there will be a backlash. If you believe the hype you have to believe a backlash too. Any criticism we get, is always stuff we've already criticised ourselves.

I don't think you can look at my history and say they love me to death in Silicon Valley.

You don't learn charm. It's not something that you can acquire. I have used it much in my life with great success, but it's not necessarily what makes me an actor. It became a very easy label to attach to me. It also feels a bit dismissive. People go, 'You're so lovely and charming', but it's a wee bit, 'That's all you are.'

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

Other bands in Vegas hated us because we hadn't played shows and paid our dues. Publications called us out, saying we were just a put-together band, claiming we had ghostwriters. It made me so happy, the fact that everyone was hating on us so hard.

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.

Though I have tremendous support from lots of people, there are so many others waiting to tear me down.

Coming off all my wins I had a lot of criticism.

Bottom line: People in our business are always going to look to find reasons to see the negative in somebody and to become resentful.

Duke has a lot of haters, but I know it means you're doing something right if they're hating you.

I am privileged and very happy to be a professional sportsperson, but should that make people so angry?

I always loved the spotlight, just not the negativity.

There are always going to be haters.