Neal Adams Quotes

Once your name gets out, people just want to crack you.

But once you become successful, everyone has an idea of what you should do.

You get held to a high standard, almost an unmaintainable standard, in the public eye that you don't even come close to touching.

It's so hard to have relationships when there is so much scrutiny.

Fame is a magnifying glass

I feel like a lot of people disregard the scrutiny that people like us are under.

I have played for the national team many times, so I am used to good things - and bad things - being said about me.

I came from the NFL, so people didn't like that, or they just try to make assumptions, and I think when you assume, you look stupid.

There's loads of eyes and expectations. People are almost waiting for you to make a mistake so they can say, 'Oh, she's a one-hit wonder!'

The bigger you get as a player, the bigger the spotlight.

You walk into a room and there's already judgment. You know, like football players can't act or you're going to come in and be stiff.

It took me awhile to learn the public eye was on me.

The hard part about getting much attention is that people start dissecting what you do.

There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke and not seem worthy of all the attention it's getting.

You can act as nice as you can 100% of the time, and it will still not make everybody say nice things about you.

Well it's not easy being Tiger Woods on the course. It's not easy being Tiger Woods off the course. In his defense, it's not easy being Tiger Woods.

I am so stereotyped into being this Hollywood girl.

You cannot have adoration without being criticized.

In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennifer Lopez, movies bombed, therefore he must be a sort of thoughtless dilettante, solipsistic consumer blahblahblah. It's hard to shake those sort of narratives.

It is amazing what people feel they have the right to tell you to your face when you're famous.

The difficulty with any sort of esteem is that more is expected of you.

There's a lot more pressure on me at United. There are people out there trying to shoot you down.

From my own point of view, I hope everybody would realise that people who work in Scottish football - referees included - are always under terrific scrutiny.

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

I've always liked people who know me to like me, because I think I'm quite likeable. But people who make up their minds based on the image in the papers or a voice on a pop record? They're idiots.