Meryl Streep Quotes

I'm very sensitive to criticism, particularly when it's very, very personal.

Love never hurts anybody. And if you feel you have been hurt by love, it is something else in you, not your loving quality that feels hurt.

Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.

When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me.

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.

I took it personal. I got slammed quite a bit.

Some of the things written about me hurt, but there is nothing I can do about it.

The fact that there are people who criticize me doesn't mean that people hate me.

What you said hurt me very much. I cried all the way to the bank.

All criticism hurts me. I'm so in the wrong business.

You have to realize, when you're a comedian, that you have to have a thick skin. And trust me, being onstage in front of people is already difficult enough. Somebody's personal attack in an email is not as hard as getting onstage.

Frankly, I get much more sensitive about what's written about me than how I look in a photo. I'm so used to people seeing my image in plays and films that what they think about how I look is none of my business. If they says, "Hey, he doesn't look good," I'm like, Whatever, because I know I look different from day to day. But if you're up there putting your heart into something and people reject your performance, that's very painful. The written word can kick your ass.

The criticism hurts sometimes and I worry about the effect on my family.

Sometimes it's hard to hear criticism, or "maybe let's try a different way." People's feelings get hurt.

You're happy that people are seeing your work. As for the critics, it really hurts when they knock you.

Well, laddie, if you've let an old buzzard like me hurt you confidence, you couldn't have had much in the first place.

We are injured and hurt emotionally, Not so much by other people or what they say and don't say, But by our own attitude and our own response.

Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last; and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another, never admitting that there is a shade less honor in the second field than in the first, or in the third than in the second.

Often our self-esteem is bruised by criticism.

It’s called mind over matter. If we don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” When a bit of me hurts, I always mind.

Someone asked me...how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell--Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who had stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh.

Then she told herself to stop her nonsense. If you looked for things to make you feel hurt and wretched and unnecessary, you were certain to find them, more easily each time, so easily, soon, that you did not even realize you had gone out searching. Women alone often developed into experts at the practice. She must never join their dismal league.

The bottom line is, insults only hurt when they come from someone I respect.

I thought you'd like it," he said, seeming hurt. "You look very pretty.

To be shocked at how deeply rejection hurts is to ignore what acceptance involves. We must never allow our suffering to be compounded by suggestions that there is something odd in suffering so deeply. There would be something amiss if we didn't.