Jennifer Lawrence Quotes

There's backlash about everything I do.

People hate us for showing stuff, and they hate us when we say, 'Fine, we won't show it anymore.'

We're very aware that you cannot please everybody and that there's going to be backlash. There will always be backlash.

There's always a backlash when you challenge people's convictions and their heroes.

Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash.

Any time you do something - a protest - you know there's going to be backlash.

If you're doing your job right, some substantial group of people [is] going to be mad at you.

There is always backlash. Everything gets backlash.

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

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I used to have a lot more hair before I got involved with this milk business …. We don't have a lot of public support for our milk policies and that probably indicates we're doing it right.

One cannot move so fast so as to invite a backlash.

Whenever you take a stand on an issue, people will line up around the block to kick your ass over it. By having an opinion, you make yourself a target. Why do you think Congress likes to hide behind closed doors at decision-making time?

The more they hate you, the better you're doing.

I get so much backlash in Hollywood.

Cheap anti-Americanism will eventually have consequences.

I'm sure there was people in Australia that told Peter Norman that hey, man, you shouldn't have done what you did, you shouldn't have gotten involved in those individuals, it wasn't your business.

Any time you step forward, someone gets upset.

You have to be able to swim in backlash.

Statues to great men are made of the stones thrown at them in their lifetime.

Any time you've got both the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, you're not long for the White House.

Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.

I've gotten resistance for my entire career.

When we did 'The Office,' no one knew who we were, so it was easy to champion us; you could own us. Once you become successful, people don't have that any more, so it becomes more polarised. Some people want to champion you, and others want to slag you off. It doesn't concern me.

Over the years, my marks on paper have landed me in all sorts of courts and controversies - I have been comprehensively labelled; anti-this and anti-that, anti-social, anti-football, anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-Semitic, anti-science, anti-republican, anti-American, anti-Australian - to recall just an armful of the antis.