Michelle Visage Quotes

There's always going to be people saying negative and positive things. If you let all that into you, and you're always contemplating that and thinking about that, I'm sure that can get to you. I try not to do that.

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

The thing that helped me come to terms with performing was an anxiety, a desperation for acceptance. There was never enough positive motivation in my life.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn't.

I've seen a lot of women give up after they've had three or four bad gigs in a row. It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.

I was not used to criticism.

I know I'm being judged, and anyone who works in the public eye will get some negativity at some point. It can be tough and it hurts. I can be very tough on myself. Occasionally, I hear or read something cruel and I'm shocked.

It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It's easy to get discouraged in life.

I really fell into drama school - I had a lot of lot of luck. I didn't take criticism very well while I was there; in fact, I took it personally. With every note I got, I felt like they were telling me I was a bad person.

Sometimes it used to hurt so bad when people used to say stuff about me. It still does. But I'm at a level now that I'm like, 'I ain't surprised that they said this or that about me.'

I'm not going to get upset because somebody said something bad about me.

It's not easy to filter out all the negative things people say and/or write about you.

You never want to hear your name get booed, but it's fine. I'm not going to let it bother me because I know what type of guy I am.

Am I ever gonna grow thick skin? No.

I feel like I didn't really know how to cope with not playing well.

No one goes unscathed, we all go through things. We just can't let people's nasty words become our beliefs about ourselves, you know?

When I'm on my own, I can be negative. I need my friends and family around to help pick me up if I've had a bad qualifying session. I think insecurity plagues a lot of sportspeople.

When I get hate mail, I get really down on myself, and I read it to my mom, and my mom is like, 'So what? Who cares? These people don't know you, so you can't take the praise or the hate to heart.'

I've learned to develop a thick skin, but you're bound to be affected when you read something bad about yourself in the paper and it's rubbed in your face over and over.

Actors in general have some place in them that can be sensitive and easily damaged: not damaged in a bad way, but insecurity, because that's what it breeds, especially in females and female-lead types.

When I run into disappointment - say, for example, not getting a role I'd hoped for - I just try not to take it personally.

I've always been really, really aware of my insecurities - really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.

I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.

I can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it.