John Irving Quotes

Since I was 9 years old, I've been in the entertainment business, and everyone is always telling me what - and what not - to do... you just get a tough skin and have to not care about what people think, or you will not end up in a good place.

I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it.

Life as an actor has toughened me up, and I've learned that you shouldn't take things too personally. Someone once said that to do this job you need talent, luck and a thick skin - which is so true.

If you come from WWE, you have a thick skin because you're hated on all day, every day.

You have to have a very thick skin to run a business.

I'm a confident woman with thick skin, and as a model in the public eye, I'm conditioned to accept criticism.

You've got to have thick skin in this business.

Occasionally I’ll be sitting somewhere and I’ll be listening to someone perhaps not saying the kindest things about me. And I’ll look down at my hand and I’ll sort of pinch my skin to make sure it still has the requisite thickness I know Eleanor Roosevelt expects me to have.

At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months.

I've always been pretty levelheaded. In show business, you need to have a certain internal stability.

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

A lot of modeling is how much crap you can take.

Some people have a tendency to get knocked down in this business and sulk and whine, and they just create a rod for their back, really. You have to have broad shoulders and get through it.

If you're going to succeed, then you just have to be thick-skinned. It's something I developed early in my career, and it just goes with the territory.

I do think a key to success in any walk of life is having a short memory and a thick skin - I know it has served me well over the years.

My biggest advice for girls - and this is something that I wish I could have known when I was younger - is to have thick skin. It's something that you definitely develop when you get older, but when I first started, I was so obsessed with pleasing everybody. I wanted everybody to like me and to like my songs.

You have to surround yourself with really good people and have a very thick skin.

You have to have a strong sense of self in this business - otherwise they're going to spit you out.

You have to develop a very thick skin.

There isn't a lot of room for people who are thin skinned in this business.

It was Bella Absug who taught me to be tough, to let insults roll off my back.

Being a fabricator is fun, amazing and empowering but you'll need to put on your thick skin to face opposition on a daily basis.

I've been in the entertainment industry - wresting, but the entertainment industry since 1989; if you have thin skin, you're going to have a tough time in this town, but I've got thick skin.

Not everyone is going to like you, not everyone is going to want to play you, and that's the business side of it, which I've grown into and I'm certainly not going to take personally.

Everything I do is criticized, scrutinized, sometimes praised. Everything is always looked at like hey what's next. It's made me grow a much thicker skin.