Anne Roiphe Quotes

It used to hurt when people ran down my films. I used to feel inferior. I wouldn't go to parties or award functions because my cinema is not considered good enough. But now I keep my head high, and I am proud of what I am doing.

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.

Some people are just not going to like me and they're not going to like my work. But that doesn't mean I'm a bad person.

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.

Am I completely indifferent to criticism? No, not at all. But I know who I am and I have learned to respect and care for who I am.

Approval isn’t necessary. It’s nice when you get it, but it’s not going to stop us from being who we are. I mean, if I’d have listened to approval, I’d never have made it one day onstage. But to be criticized, if there’s validity, as upset as you are, you can learn from it.

It used to worry me what people said about me. I'm learning not to worry as much. Sometimes you feel critics are wrong all the time, but I don 't take objection to it, because that's the way it goes. They can be wrong, they can be right. They can be cruel, they can be kind.

I don't look at the criticism anymore. If somebody calls me fat, even in a vulnerable moment, I laugh to myself and think, I'm doing everything I can, so there's nothing I can do about it.

I used to respond to people who are dismissive of my work, but as I grow older, I think it's best to ignore your critics. For one thing, they can't stand it, and secondly, you're never going to change them.

Don't let what others think or say get in your way; their actions reflect on them, not you.

I might have to stumble a little bit more in public than others, but that's fine, I don't mind, I've developed a thick skin.

I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.

I'm coming from a place of total strength and humility now.

It really doesn't matter to me what people say about me anymore.

The older I've got, the easier I've found it to accept myself. I think I've finally learnt not to beat myself up so much.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

You know, I think I'm a stronger person for realizing that you can't make everybody love you.

You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know it's not good.

I've had so many things, good and bad, said about me. I'm way beyond worrying about what people say.

The course is going to make you look silly sometimes. You have to be able to accept that and move on.

I'm far more ready to go with the flow now because I am more accepting of myself.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

I learned not to care what other people think.

When you're under a microscope from an early age, you realize that people aren't always going to like you. And that's OK. And you're going to fail publicly, and that's OK, too.

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.