Antoine Fuqua Quotes

I've had countless reviews sort that have made me cry. It's funny, it doesn't ever get better either; you can't turn your ears off.

What I do is sometimes - at least in Germany - met with wounding campaigns. I always face the question: should I grow myself a thick skin and ignore it, or should I let myself be wounded? I've decided to be wounded, since, if I grew a thick skin, there are other things I wouldn't feel any more.

When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me.

I took it personal. I got slammed quite a bit.

Nothing anybody's said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does.

Being a sensitive, thoughtful person opens you up for criticism and being affected by it.

Let's say another YouTuber rates my outfit from Coachella, right? They are completely entitled to their opinion, and I actually really loved my Coachella outfit. If they say, 'This is ugly,' and even if I don't think it's true, it's a mood killer.

I'm very sensitive to criticism, particularly when it's very, very personal.

It used to hurt me when people said I was hiding in Wales.

You can call me a fat, balding, talentless old queen who can't sing, but you can't tell lies about me.

All I could do is lie there and think about how much her voice changed when she asked me if she was pretty, and how much she changed when I answered.

The fact that there are people who criticize me doesn't mean that people hate me.

I was very vulnerable to criticism for many years. I could read a bad review and remember it my whole life.

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.

I tend to take negative comments to heart.

Criticism can be devastating. When push comes to shove, we are all very sensitive.

Being accused of enthusiasm is something I'll never live down.

It's a healthy thing to get some bad criticism. I'm still here and I'm fine, but I'd be lying if I said it didn't get to you reading the negative stuff.

I'm too sensitive and too sincere.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

I'm not thick-skinned at all, and of course I'm hurt by people attacking me as a person.

You read glowing things and it doesn't feel deserved. You read things that are critical and it cuts you to the bone.

Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.