Angelina Jolie Quotes

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

The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me.

A lot of modeling is how much crap you can take.

If you want to call me names, make jokes and doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it.

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.

It's a healthy thing to get some bad criticism. I'm still here and I'm fine, but I'd be lying if I said it didn't get to you reading the negative stuff.

You have to develop a very thick skin.

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

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

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

I have people criticizing me every day - even on my own website - so when you have people that are constantly bringing you down, it's not that hard to stay grounded.

Am I ever gonna grow thick skin? No.

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.

If someone would tease me about my hair, I would laugh... if someone called me black, I would laugh. I just took things in my stride. I was never made a victim.

I'm a big boy with big shoulders and I've had some real world issues so getting some stick online doesn't bother me.

When people make fun of us, it's fine. I get it.

I've had to learn not to read all the bad comments, or if you do, try and not take it into your soul, body, brain, and heart.

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 was bullied and picked on because I was so different to everyone else, and I definitely didn't believe or even know I was fabulous back then. But those hard times made me everything I am today. It's all water under the bridge now, but being bullied and going through adversity definitely made me stronger.

The more vile the thing that's said about me, the less it affects me. It doesn't bother me at all.

I don't need a good skate to make everything OK.

When you get bullied, you automatically think that you're the reason why you're getting bullied. The reality is, it's about them, not you... I'm all about blocking people. I'm all about saying, 'You know what, I don't need this in my life.'

There's a lot of stress out there, and to handle it, you just need to believe in yourself; always go back to the person that you know you are, and don't let anybody tell you any different, because everyone's special and everyone's awesome.

I don't really have disappointments, because I build myself up for rejection.

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.