Cindy Margolis Quotes

The negativity will always be there. I think that's for any actress or actor. But I think you've got to take it with a pinch of salt.

Surround yourself with good people who encourage and love you. There are always ups and downs, no matter how successful you are.

If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.

I don't let negative criticism, for the most part, bother me.

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

You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.

I think it's important to always keep professional and surround yourself with good people, work hard, and be nice to everyone.

Surround yourself with really good people. I think that's an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.

You can't take anything personally in this business. Follow your dreams, but there is a lot of criticism. You have to brush it off. Everybody is looking for something different.

If a woman wants to succeed in the public arena, she needs to grow skin as thick as the hide of a rhinoceros. I have certainly, as you can tell, have had to learn how to do that, and there's a lot of good moisturizers I can tell you about if you're interested. The second thing is to learn how to take criticism seriously but not personally.

At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months.

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me.

You have to laugh, you have to be able to take criticism.

People frequently ask me if adverse criticism bothers me. I've had a lot of it, and I have been able to shrug most of it off.

Even if I would have left on a good note, there is still going to be people who don't like you, who don't like what you stand for. I can't worry about that.

That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.

People are always wanting to pull me up on my shortfalls. I try to battle against those and concentrate on how good things are.

You know, I always think of myself as sort of ready for every criticism.

Don't listen to what other people say about you negatively!

You have to develop a very thick skin.

Say 'no' more than 'yes,' and just make sure you surround yourself with good people.

From the beginning, I've had to juggle and weigh the silly things people say - and I've learnt that they're meaningless, and they're mostly inaccurate. So I don't worry about it, because there's nothin' for me to deal with.

I was not used to criticism.

I don't care what people are saying about me, good or bad, in blogs or on Twitter or in the media. There will always be people who don't like you and don't like your books. Ignore them.