Karren Brady Quotes

When people direct insults at me, I can take it.

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

I never engage negatively with reviewers. If someone says something that enrages me, I do what I do on stage. I make a joke about myself and move on. Sometimes people say things that are manifestly wrong or even apparently malicious. That's fine, too. It's a response.

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 know there is a certain amount of negativity I have to deal with.

Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do.

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.

You can't be sensitive, because you're going to get criticized. I don't care who you are, you're going to get criticized.

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.

In 35 years of being in the media, I've had all this mud flung at me many, many times. It's not the first time. It's nothing unusual. I've been through it all before and the best way to deal with it is not to read them.

As athletes, most of the time we deal with fans cussing at us, saying how much we suck.

I think any time anybody says something nasty about you, it's hard to deal with it.

It's really hard when people write nasty things about you all the time. As much as good things are said about you, it's always those one or two bad comments that really stay with you and gnaw at you. I try not to read that stuff if I can.

It was good for us, I suppose. Those kinds of times produce qualities in us that make us better for having had them. My parents were not getting along. My mother was quite intolerant of friendships that were being developed.

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.

There's always going to be something said that hurts you.

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

If I'm at a book signing, and someone decides to take me to task, it can make for quite a sticky moment.

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.

It's taken me a long, long time to figure out how to deal with negativity, because it used to really upset me. I was always that girl that, if I was performing in the club and there was one person not paying attention or not liking me, the whole club could be packed with people loving me, but I'd be obsessed with that one person.

When things get tough, a lot of people point fingers.

When I was growing up as a kid, it was always, 'Oh, you're being bullied. Well, toughen up. Get some tough skin and deal with it.' That's how we were told to deal with it, and it's not that simple.

Everyone deals with criticism in a different way. Some guys read it, some guys don't really listen to it, some guys try to stay away from it, some guys get angry about it.