Tali Lennox Quotes

I've had so many things, good and bad, said about me. I'm way beyond worrying about what people say.

I don't really worry too much about what people say. I guess it's good that people talk about me.

I have a chest full of all the insults, villainies, and infamies a man is capable of withstanding. . . . If you become famous, you will have to go through that.

I'm not afraid of criticism or what somebody may think.

Don't let what others think or say get in your way; their actions reflect on them, not you.

I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.

Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.

It used to hurt when people ran down my films. I used to feel inferior. I wouldn't go to parties or award functions because my cinema is not considered good enough. But now I keep my head high, and I am proud of what I am doing.

From a certain age, I sort of accepted myself for what I was. And although to other people it was like nothing ever goes right, I had a really nice attitude that I'd inherited from my parents, and especially from my dad.

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.

I remember I read this harsh review about my show, and one of my friends told me that this was the exact same stuff people said about Madonna. And it's like, she didn't care. Madonna just came out and was herself. I respect that a lot.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

I knew that because of who I am, and the situation I'm in, that I'd attract more critics than your average person, and that was a little intimidating, but I wanted to get out there and pay my dues.

I don't care what people say about me.

A lot of things which come with a high profile will always be criticised one way or another.

I'm used to people talking about me.

Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.

The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

I've stopped worrying about whether people think what I do is any good. I've taken stick in the past, and I've genuinely worried and got incredibly upset.

You have to be willing to accept the idea that people may think you're stupid.

And I'm OK being judged as an actor.

There's a lot of judgement that can come from outside sometimes, and there's media scrutiny that is placed on a lot of women in the public eye, and I just couldn't care less. I really couldn't care less.

Fame is a magnifying glass

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. Fame and censure with a tether / By fate are always linked together.

When you're under a microscope from an early age, you realize that people aren't always going to like you. And that's OK. And you're going to fail publicly, and that's OK, too.