I had been gullible, naive, soft, pliable. That's why I got taken advantage of. To survive, you have to have a tough skin.
I burn, I freeze; I am never warm. I am rigid; I forgot softness because it did not serve me.
At a certain point, I think, you harden yourself to the realities of the business.
Not being untutored in suffering, I learn to pity those in affliction
I'm used to meanness. It doesn't matter to me.
It takes a lot to wound a man without illusions.
Better a broken heart than a hardened one.
Hardened terrorists are coming here to hit us hard if we don't hit them first.
Falling down became second nature and it really didn't bother me.
Everything in the world had happened to them and kept on happening. They didn't care. They liked it that way.
Famine, poverty, abuse, you can't keep that all blocked out. If you let those things teach you, influence you, change you, those are the events that transition you without you even knowing it to become more compassionate.
I often think when a man's once past a certain age, the older he grows the tougher he gets, and women the same or more so.
Lestat: Toughen up baby. I'm looking for the eternal scum.
We've had to develop a super-thick skin. We've been beaten up more than any band in history.
I try to show that I have no fear. When you grow up hungry, you're not afraid of anything.
Hard weather, says the old man. So let it be. Wrap me in the weathers of the earth, I will be hard and hard. My face will wash rain like the stones.
Most of my fans are too sensitive. I’m a cruel and cold and hard person. I’ve been abused in every way you can imagine. Save your tears. I lost my sensitivity. You embarrass me when you cry.
There's nothing you could say that would shock me.
You can get numbed. People can get hardened. It's not their fault; they just get hardened. News media get hardened. Proprietors get even harder.
I've been a target my entire life. At this point, there's nothing anyone can say that will faze me. Bring it on!
As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.
Having been a journalist for thirty-nine years, I've developed a pretty thick skin.
Gretchen shrugged. "After seeing how he acted when she almost died, I'm starting to get why she's with him." Then her voice hardened. "And really, Leila. That's twice now.
I have the thickest skin of anyone you'll ever meet. No one can say anything about me I haven't heard a million times before.
My toughness comes from just being from Philly, man.
