You know, when you go to high school or, you know, when kids are younger and there's not an understanding of differences. But I built up a very strong, thick skin.
Alexander Wang
I had to learn that some people are just not going to like you. I had to have thick skin when I would see what people would say or write about me.
Allen Iverson
I have inherited my father's thick skin, which helps me deal with trolls.
Ananya Panday
I'm a confident woman with thick skin, and as a model in the public eye, I'm conditioned to accept criticism.
Ashley Graham
I do think a key to success in any walk of life is having a short memory and a thick skin - I know it has served me well over the years.
Aubrey McClendon
I have been on the Internet for a long time and have always gotten hate on the Internet, so there is a thick skin I have developed.
Barbie Ferreira
I have thick skin.
Baron Davis
You have to have really thick skin. Art is obviously there to be criticized and there to be taken in different ways. Not everyone is going to like what you do.
Bel Powley
You have to have a thick skin, yes. If you're going to do something as foolhardy as standup, you've got to be able to take it on the chin if someone has a go at you.
Bill Bailey
When I was in first grade, the kids called me 'fatso.' It hurt, but the way I overcame it was to outrun every kid in the class. So I developed a thick skin, and athletics became my way of performing and being accepted.
Billy Casper
Am I ever gonna grow thick skin? No.
Cardi B
I bring values, resiliency, a thick skin, and I'm not afraid to be confrontational. I don't remember anyone before bringing that to the table.
Carl Paladino
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.
Carrie Underwood
As players you need to have thick skin and we need to have belief that you will have bad days but it's about making sure you have more good days than bad.
Chris Smalling
Throughout my career I have developed a thick skin against verbal abuse, justifying it as just 'part of the game' but the time has come for Twitter, Instagram and Facebook to consider regulating their channels, taking responsibility for protecting the mental health of users regardless of age, race, sex or income.
When you're onstage and you know you're bombing, that's very, very scary. Because you know you gotta keep going - you're bombing, but you can't stop. And you know that half an hour from now, you're still gonna be bombing. It takes a thick skin.
Christopher Walken
You have to surround yourself with really good people and have a very thick skin.
Cindy Margolis
You know, I have a very thick skin.
Conchita Wurst
If you are prepared to admit to others and to yourself who you really are, then you can have a fantastic life. Of course, you need to have a thick skin to get through it all.
The reality of producing the Oscars is that it's a blood sport. With social media, everyone has a chance to voice their opinions. You have to know that entering into this special world requires a very thick skin.
Craig Zadan
I've got thick skin.
I have a thick skin.
I have a thick skin, but I have a heart.
Lawyers are like rhinoceroses: thick skinned, short-sighted, and always ready to charge.
The reality is I have a job as a national party chair that, one, requires a thick skin. It requires me to be able to absorb the body blows so our candidates can stay above the fray.
You have to have a thick skin if you think what you are doing is right.
We lived in Germany; my father was in the Army, and they figured I would have more consistency at boarding school. That kind of gives you a thick skin.
I've worked with some actors who have such thick skins and think they are so extraordinary. I'll think, 'Have you stopped learning?' They stop listening to directors or other actors and do the same thing again and again.
When you're an aspiring actor, you do so many self-tapes that it gets to a certain point where you have to develop a thick skin, otherwise you will never survive.
I have two boys with Nigerian heritage and that's the most important thing but race shouldn't define you. You just have to have a thick skin.
As an actor, you have to get used to being told no, develop a thick skin, and just keep persevering.
I've got a thick skin.
I've learned to develop a thick skin, but you're bound to be affected when you read something bad about yourself in the paper and it's rubbed in your face over and over.
You have to develop a very thick skin.
I had to grow a very thick skin very fast. I think that's where the GC came about.
I think you have to have really thick skin to be in politics - which I just lack. I think I'm just too nice!
I've built up such a thick skin. It's very easy to take one comment - whether it be a really mean comment that digs deep or just something rude - and really run with it. It's so easy: if there are 100 comments, and 99 are nice, you just run with the bad one.
I often have said that to be a college president, you need a thick skin, a good sense of humor, and nerves like sewer pipes.
I would say the more significant factor of my starting late is that I developed a sufficiently thick skin to be able to - just about - handle the knocks that a fledgling comedian takes.
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.
Growing up in Manhattan has given me a thick skin.
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.
People say that one of the most important things about being an actor is to have thick skin, but I don't think that's it. Because you can't just walk around being tough, you have to be able to be vulnerable to do this. So really, it's about not being defensive.
Later on in my life, it became a big theme: just being okay and comfortable to take the risk and to have really thick skin and realize not everybody is going to love your product. Get over it, and if you believe in it, keep going forward.
Having red hair is never good when you're a kid. I was picked on a lot and didn't have a lot of friends. But I think that gave me a thick skin and helped make me a better person.
I've been thinking recently about all the qualities you need in order to be an actor. First and foremost, you've got to have a thick skin and give out an 'I don't give a monkey's what you think' kind of vibe, while at the same time really caring what everyone thinks. You've got to be tough and sensitive at the same time.
I can't speak for the Jewish population, but I attribute my sense of humor to the tragic moments of my life. The best way to overcome certain tragedies is to develop a thick skin and sense of humor about things. Of course, I am very politically conscious and careful about my comedy. But when I do push an envelope, it's with a purpose.
I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.
I have a very thick skin altogether - surprisingly, many actors are rather fragile, but I get that of the 10 million people watching an episode, probably 3 million hate me, and I'm comfortable with that.
