Not everyone in the world is going to particularly love me. But I’m cool with that. Chris Brown Chris Brown on People’s Opinions of Him January 27, 2015 Source: Billboard, 2014
I don't want to tell you what you need to do. I mean, I'm not turning it up to 10 when it comes to being correct, I'm not that guy, I like my wine. Denzel Washington
I think that, at this point, we should just follow our hearts and really not worry about what other people think. Sanaa Lathan
Everybody has an opinion about everything. But an opinion is just an opinion – I can only respect it but I can’t do anything to change their minds or to change the way I feel. Nothing is going to change because of their opinion. Rihanna
Whatever you do, you’re going to do it at your pace and however it is that you do it. It’s going to be different from how anybody else does it and that’s enough. That’s all it has to be. Tatyana Ali
Some people go buy the Audi, some people go buy the Benz, some people buy Bentleys, some people buy Aston Martins, whichever is an effect of your personality, but so many people try to put their personality on someone else. Kanye West
I’m sorry. I’m a human being. I’ve got opinions, I’m not always right, I’m not always on time, I don’t always say things in the proper way, but my intentions are always extremely pure. Kanye West
No, I'm not going to walk around every day of my life depending on the opinions of other people. Because if I do that, I'll just be trying to please everybody and that's not what I'm here for. Chris Brown
Why is it that people just have to have so much to say about me? It bugs me because I'm not that important. Miles Davis
We as African-American artists are more concerned with image and message and not execution which is why every time you see your images they’ve been watered down to the point where they are not realistic at all. Viola Davis
I started thinking, what if I went my whole life trying to please everybody? You will never please everybody. And you haven’t pleased yourself ’cos you’ve been so busy trying to please everybody and then it’s too late. I had to have that breakthrough, to tap into who I really was. Rihanna
There is already harsh criticism of African American hair in society without the help of ignorant people who choose to judge people others based on the curl of their hair. Zendaya Coleman
The world has wanted me to speak differently than I speak. I speak like my mom; I speak like the whitest white dude; I speak like a Def Comedy Jam comedian doing an impression of a white guy. Jordan Peele
I don’t know what I am. I don’t care whether people call me jazz or pop. I just love to sing, and I try to sing whatever I think people want to hear. Songs that fit my style. Ella Fitzgerald
As long as you’re doing something good, people will always bring up old stuff or negative stuff because they don’t want you to surpass a certain level or elevate. But as long as you have your head on straight, it shouldn’t matter what people want to say. Chris Brown
