Dhanush Quotes

I was called fat and ugly in the press almost my entire life. I understand that being judged by others comes with the territory, but it broke my heart and ruined my self-esteem.

I wasn't just known as one of the singers in Little Mix, I was known as 'the fat, ugly one'.

People on radio and television started making nasty comments about me and I felt awful. Turning from a teenager into a woman is hard enough without dealing with snide comments.

If you're in the public eye, you're constantly scrutinised. I was called too thin and then too fat when I was overweight. It's just a shame those are the reactions people have.

It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.

It's unbelievable that people have the time and inclination to be as negative as they are on a public platform about people who accomplish whatever they do in the public eye.

TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.

Sometimes I see people writing the most ridiculous things about me.

There's really not much that people can pick on me for my work, so obviously they find other reasons to write something bad about me. I mean, people enjoy reading bad stuff about people.

It really bugs me the way people criticise how actors look. We're not models. Models exist.

On a single day, I read articles where I was described as being alternately 'lanky,' 'pudgy,' 'doughy,' 'balding,' 'utterly forgettable,' and 'constantly irritating.'

I thought I was attractive when I shot 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding.' Studio executives and movie reviewers let me know I had a confidence in my looks that was not shared by them.

I live in a world where there's magazines and blogs, and people feel like they are allowed to criticize me, and in the meanest way.

Most difficult is the labeling by other people that models are empty-headed bodies. I think if you look for negativity, you can find it anywhere.

One guy told me I was a great actor, I just would never be on the cover of a magazine.

It's impossible to work under conditions where they confused negativity with objectivity. You can't fool the fans.

Whatever its origin, I'd like to see a cure for the Incredibly Shrinking Actress phenomena.

For some reason, I'm constantly attacked on social media in terms of how I dress. I've never understood that. That's been very hard.

There is nothing worse than a politician that gets defensive and starts attacking the media - and it always looks bad for the politician, because you sign up for this. You live by the sword, you die by the sword.

If I looked like a Victoria's Secret model, I would still get nasty comments.

I was angry and sad that people kept commenting on my pictures saying, 'You're too fat to wear that!' or 'Cover up! No one wants to see that!'

I used to get so many nasty comments when I cut my hair short, and it upset me.

If you do a cable show, you have a radio show, whatever, if you're fat and you've got red hair, look, they're going to pick on you.

I was told, 'You are not beautiful and glamorous enough,' 'Oh no, you're too serious an actor...' 'You're not good enough an actor,' 'You are not so and so's daughter.' I was even told, 'You are not a big, marketable name.'

A lot of things that were written about me bothered me, like my mentality was not good.