Sometimes you feel bad about yourself when there's no reason to.
I've always been faced with all kinds of criticism. People were saying, 'Oh, Shaggy is pop. He can't do dancehall,' even though I came from dancehall.
The critics never ever one time fairly criticized my son.
Whom does undeserved honour please, and undeserved blame alarm, but the base and the liar?
Everything I do is blown out of proportion. It really hurts my feelings.
Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
If they want to criticize me, I don't care; I don't mind. But they must criticize me fairly. Usually, the criticism is not fair. Or the praise, even the praise sometimes is not fair.
Nobody has been criticized as much as I have.
It is easy to criticize me from behind a pen or a microphone, from someone who never set foot on a football field.
The reviewer is a singularly detested enemy because he is, unlike the hapless artist, invulnerable.
If there was the same propensity in mankind for investigating the motives, as there is for censuring the conduct, of public characters, it would be found that the censure so freely bestowed is oftentimes unmerited and uncharitable.
This is the only country in the world where you can be criticised for trying too hard. That's a put-down in London.
Coming into the league, everyone said I was going to be fat, I was the next Oliver Miller. I had all these red flags. I just feel I was never given a fair chance coming in.
Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
As human beings, we suffer from an innate tendency to jump to conclusions, to judge people too quickly, and to pronounce them failures or heroes without due consideration.
We actors get a lot of love, but at times, we get double the amount of negativity for no reason whatsoever.
I can't stand the assumption that I'm blonde and a bit stupid.
I always end up being the evil one, and I wouldn't hurt a fly.
You score the winner against a tough opponent and you still get heaped on.
Having created a business that is a success, when you are in a nepotistic situation, people who don't do anything themselves, well, it is easy for them to say it's never good enough.
I have increasingly steeled myself to criticism, but it still can sting, especially when you feel that it is unfair - or that they are judging my book by its cover or by preconceived notions.
Criticism of me has been unfair. Only goals count - and I have plenty of those.
You can act as nice as you can 100% of the time, and it will still not make everybody say nice things about you.
