Rachel Johnson Quotes

I'm not thick-skinned at all, and of course I'm hurt by people attacking me as a person.

Criticism can be devastating. When push comes to shove, we are all very sensitive.

I'm definitely a crier. I get really emotional if someone's being rude or says something mean about me.

If someone says something unpleasant, I can't say it doesn't smart a bit. It always does. Someone can take a really nasty swipe if they want because it kind of feels powerful for a person to write in a paper and get that thing out there.

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

I realized that I'm a soft person. I think I'm sensitive. I wanted very much to be tough and I think movie stars have a certain kind of resilience and toughness to them, but I'm quite a sensitive young lady in some respects.

I've had countless reviews sort that have made me cry. It's funny, it doesn't ever get better either; you can't turn your ears off.

I know I'm being judged, and anyone who works in the public eye will get some negativity at some point. It can be tough and it hurts. I can be very tough on myself. Occasionally, I hear or read something cruel and I'm shocked.

I take them seriously but I try not to read them. I take them personally, that's why I don't read them. I think people are lying when they say they don't care, that's not true. I take them personally.

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.

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

I used to take it much more to heart. Now I realise that negativity has almost everything to do with the person delivering it and very little to do with you yourself.

I have a heart and am extremely sensitive to what people say about me, both in the press and otherwise.

Obviously, I'm not a man of steel in that people's words don't affect me. They might hurt me. But I am becoming immune to it as time goes by.

I don't mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really hurts.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted.

Everything that's said against me offends me, whether it's true or not.

I tend to take negative comments to heart.

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

When people say negative things or speculate, you can't help but feel hurt.

What I do is sometimes - at least in Germany - met with wounding campaigns. I always face the question: should I grow myself a thick skin and ignore it, or should I let myself be wounded? I've decided to be wounded, since, if I grew a thick skin, there are other things I wouldn't feel any more.

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

Realizing that we've surrendered our self-esteem to others and choosing to be accountable for our own self-worth would mean absorbing the terrifying fact that we're always vulnerable to pain and loss.