Keeley Hawes Quotes

I've now got a 35,000-word document of quotes from people who hate me, a lot from the 'Guardian' comment threads. Mostly, I've managed to get myself into the mindset where the criticism is quite affirming.

Criticism comes with Celtic. If you take it on board, it can make you ill, but if you think: 'No problem', it makes you really thick-skinned.

I am not very relaxed about bad reviews. But I am resilient. I grieve, curse and swear, put on loud music, and get on with the next job.

I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.

I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.

You can't listen to every little thing that's bad or good said about you. I always used that - whenever I heard it, I used it as fuel to motivate me, man. That's how I was raised, whenever I came up.

I had to learn that some people are just not going to like you. I had to have thick skin when I would see what people would say or write about me.

I used to take it much more to heart. Now I realise that negativity has almost everything to do with the person delivering it and very little to do with you yourself.

I tried not to let all the criticism affect me, but it obviously does not go unnoticed.

As a young boy - I was 20-21, around that age - I didn't think I was being treated right. It can affect anyone, not just me. It was about how I bounced back, how I had to think and sit down and try to move on. Not let that defeat me.

Negative feedback can make people feel inferior.

It's important to remember, most people have been bullied, and it makes you a stronger person in the long run.

We will all face criticism throughout our lives, no matter where we live and what we weigh.

We may never become accustomed to untrue and unjust criticism of us but we ought not to be immobilized by it.

I don't care about people kissing my ass or telling me how great I am. I don't really give a damn. I read the bad stuff a whole lot more than I read the good stuff. I read that because there are always going to be critics who are going to say how good you aren't.

Rejection is good for the soul.

I've probably put up with more criticism than a lot of people out there. At the end of the day, you block out everything, especially with your personal life.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

You get used to the rejection and you don't take it personally.

People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare.

I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.

Everyone messes up in relationships and has peaks and valleys in their personal lives. When I realized it wasn't the end of the world and I would keep on standing, I knew it was going to be OK.

I'm pretty easily overwhelmed and pretty tough as well. I think I'm tougher than I used to be. There's been a lot of hardship along the way. But that's what life is. And it's how you deal with those things, and how you let them shape you that makes you a better person and defines what sort of person you're going to be.

I grew up in the South, in New Orleans, where guys torture you all the time. So I didn't really grow up on the self-esteem campaign. When you were lousy at something, they told you you were lousy, and they told you how to fix it.

It's important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow.