Gunter Grass Quotes

I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me.

Somehow I took whatever criticism there was very much to heart.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

I'm not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they're going through. I don't know if that's the healthiest thing, but it's the truth.

Being a sensitive, thoughtful person opens you up for criticism and being affected by it.

I don't have a lot of shame. That doesn't mean I can't feel bad about the way someone reacts to me or about something I read about myself online. But I don't have a lot of guilt, no. I've always been this way. I'm missing a chip.

Am I ever gonna grow thick skin? No.

I tend to take things personally. But I can only take so much, and then I jump back. I have strong survival skills.

I tend to take negative comments to heart.

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.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

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 am human, when people write bad stuff about me it bothers me, but I know that will never end.

I'm trying to get a thicker skin. I like to be aware of people's perceptions of me, but when you put it as a priority, as a means to judging your worth, that's when it can be dangerous.

I was raised in an atmosphere of 'everything's fine.' But as I got older, I was like, 'Well no, everything's not fine. There is stuff that's sad.' I am a really sensitive person. I think I am too sensitive sometimes.

Critics can say horrible things. It only hurts when I agree with them.

When something's wrong, even though you're the one doing it, you shouldn't feel defensive about it. It's hard because you have to protect yourself as a person in your life, but you can't protect yourself as an actor. You have to just take criticism.

I'm actually very vulnerable and sensitive.

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.

I began to use my sensitivity. And I realized I wasn't weird because I cried a lot.

When you're younger, you do take things personally.

I'm mindful not to get too self-pitying or too revealing of my own pain.

People and what they say don't bother me like they used to. When I was younger, I really couldn't take it because I couldn't understand where the criticism was coming from.

I was a sensitive boy.

I am very emotional, and I get really upset when any of my films flop. I also get hurt over silly things. That is the way I am; I can't help it.