Gilbert O'Sullivan Quotes

It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something.

I've been getting some bad publicity - but you got to expect that.

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

There are three-hundred thousand sportswriters and they're all against me. Every one of them.

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

People are going to bash you while you're alive, and they're going to bash you when you're gone.

Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do. Even if you go out there and try to make the most vanilla, non-offensive TV show possible, people are going to criticize you for doing that. It's just part of the game.

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

Whenever you do anything public, you open yourself up to be criticized.

People are terrified for their own reputations. They want the press on their side.

I can't see why anyone would want to be in politics because you get so much criticism.

Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.

If people want to criticize me because it sells papers, that's fine. I just don't like it when it's inaccurate.

A lot of people take shots at news channels.

I tell you what. 85 percent of the sportswriters think I'm stupid or a clown or something. They think I'm crazy.

When you take risks and things don't go your way, you can be heavily criticised by the media.

You should see all the negative things that the Romanian press writes about me.

Some of those STINKIN' press people just had to make fun of my decision in joining the show. They also made fun of other choices in my life that I was proud of then and still am now!!!

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

I try not to read best-dressed lists or anything like that. For every good thing, there will often be a not-so-nice thing people would say.

I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.

Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!

They have vilified me, they have crucified me—yes, they have even criticized me!

It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause.

I am reading it [his press coverage] more and enjoying it less.