Anushka Sharma Quotes

When something bad is written about me, I find it hurtful. So I choose not to look at it.

It was kind of a hard lesson when I figured out that not everybody is going to be kind, be sweet. So I've learned that I am never going to make everybody happy. There's always going to be someone who can't stand the way I write, and I can't take that personally.

You won't see a picture of me rolling around in a gutter, but I sometimes have a photo taken when I'm leaving a club looking tired, and there'll be headlines saying, 'She's out of control'. You can't prepare yourself for those things; you just have to shrug them off.

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.

Since I got a really bad review when I was, like, 28 in 'The New York Times,' I don't read reviews anymore.

As mayor, I got used to the fact that when you walked out of the house in the morning to pick up the newspaper in your boxers, there could be a camera there.

Long ago, I had to sort of learn to have a thick skin to read some of the things you read in the papers and to also keep my ego in check when you read some really flattering things in the papers.

It wasn't easy navigating publicity when I started, because I grew up with 'being famous,' and I'm just not into it, and I guess defensiveness gets read into that. And I didn't get an easy ride at the beginning.

Of course I've done stupid things in my career, and I do always seem to be in the paper, but I hate seeing myself.

I don't read the comments people write about me - it's not worth it.

I never read anything that's written about me.

I don't read everything written about me.

When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.

Being in the public eye, there will always be negatives. Those dark aspects will always be there and, so too, those things that will try and tear you down, but I have made the choice not to engage with them. I'm not going to let them affect me or destroy me.

The press regularly proclaims my ambitions and my financial demands.

Sometimes I wish that Anna Wintour didn't know I existed.

Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.

Of course, every time someone does a story on plastic surgery, my name will be dragged up. I've made it safe for other people to have plastic surgery. It's no longer a bad word.

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.

I don't like to read about myself, whether it be positive or negative.

At first, when I got bad press and people would talk bad about my family or something like that, I would get really upset, but now it's just not worth my energy.

I owe 90 per cent of my life to people because I am a public figure, but 10 per cent is private to me. And I am not saying it in a defensive way. I feel my life has been made into a TV serial.

I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.

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 am very conscious of what I say and do when I go out because the media is quick to make that a story.