Victor Hugo Quotes

The critics love to get out their knives and dine on Coverdale. But the worse the criticism gets, the more successful I become.

I can't relate to these haters, my enemies never made it.

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.

Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

I did not become great by association of The Beatles! Beatles make Maharishi great? Pah! It is a waste of thought.

If we're a hit, let 'em say anything they want.

Some people don't like me at all. But... whatever. It comes with the territory.

You know that once you're successful, there's going to be good things and bad things that people say and, honestly, to me it doesn't really matter.

The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is a part of the penalty for greatness, and every great man understands it; and understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness. The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure contumely without resentment.

Try never to speak of your enemies by name. Any publicity is still publicity - and there are those for whom your disapproval constitutes a recommendation.

Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.

They say a man should be judged by his enemies. I am very proud of mine.

Choose your enemies carefully: you'll probably be known much better and far longer for who they were, than for anything else you ever managed to accomplish.

If you want to achieve anything in this world, you have to get used to the idea that not everyone will like you.

And all the haters I swear, they look so small from up here.

They that stand high have many blasts to shake them.

If you work hard and you play well, all those critics quiet themselves pretty quickly.

We [with Andrew Ridgeley] were getting so much attention and achieving such success. It never really bothered me.

People always - when you rise, whenever you're getting to a point where you're a very big band, which is a very rare thing, there are always going to be people that aren't going to like you.

More than rich, more than famous, more than happy...I wanted to be great.

Because 98 percent of our ideas are not great ideas, or everyone would be a billionaire. So yeah. That's something people have had a lot of experience in: being told our idea is bad or our performance is bad. I think that's the one common thread between all working actors is that they have a pretty thick skin - or you'd like to hope. You're used to rejection, that's for sure.

I’ve been thrashed by the critics. I love having critics for breakfast. I’ve been having them for 30 years in Mexico - just eating them like chicken and then throwing the bones away. They have not survived, I have!

I think my favorite fact about myself is that I have never been dismayed by a critic's bilge or bile, and have never once in my life asked or thanked a reviewer for a review.

I have a chest full of all the insults, villainies, and infamies a man is capable of withstanding. . . . If you become famous, you will have to go through that.

I don't think you should just do what makes you happy. Do what makes you great. Do what's uncomfortable and scary and hard but pays off in the long run... Let yourself fail... And pick yourself up and fail again. Without that struggle, what is your success anyway?