Top 55 Thick Skin Quotes

I think that it is important that one grows a thick skin fast in this business, and I think we have done that.

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.

You have to surround yourself with really good people and have a very thick skin.

It took me years on top of years to grow thick skin and it took me many hurtful days.

When you work in TV you have to develop a thick skin, and I have certainly grown used to criticism.

I’ve learnt that you need to have a thick skin, lots of patience and be consistently good.

You have to grow thick skin and that only comes with time and learning.

Having been a journalist for thirty-nine years, I’ve developed a pretty thick skin.

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.

I have kind of a thick skin.

I’m a confident woman with thick skin, and as a model in the public eye, I’m conditioned to accept criticism.

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.

I’ve got thick skin.

I don’t think I have thick skin, but I heal fast. It’s easy to break through, but I heal fast.

If you come from WWE, you have a thick skin because you’re hated on all day, every day.

Dealing with negative comments is part of this job, and I’ve had to develop a thick skin, though some days it’s easier than others.

My relationship with Twitter has evolved as my career has changed. The truth is unless you have a remarkably thick skin, as a creator, it’s a very difficult place to be.

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.

If people don’t like your act, it feels a little bit more like they don’t like you as opposed to they didn’t like that character… It’s weird because on one hand, we make our living from being permeable and vulnerable, but we also have to have very thick skin.

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.

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 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.

Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I’ve had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.

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.

A thick skin is a gift from God.

You have to develop a very thick skin.

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.

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.

You’ve got to have thick skin in this business.

I’ve been in the entertainment industry – wresting, but the entertainment industry since 1989; if you have thin skin, you’re going to have a tough time in this town, but I’ve got thick skin.

I have a thick skin, but I have a heart.

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.

As an actor, you have to get used to being told no, develop a thick skin, and just keep persevering.

You know, I have a very thick skin.

I have inherited my father’s thick skin, which helps me deal with trolls.

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.

Long ago, I had to sort of learn to have a thick skin to read some of the things you read in the papers and to also keep my ego in check when you read some really flattering things in the papers.

Rejection happens, and you have to have a thick skin about it, which is hard. You can’t be overly sensitive about people not picking you.

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.

I’m strong enough and have a pretty thick skin, but when people go after my kids, I just hit block-delete, block-delete. It’s my mantra.

Fox is notorious for having a very thick skin about taking shots at themselves.

I’ve grown 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.

I’ve been in a lot of tough businesses: First Lady of San Fransciso, working as model, actress, TV host. You better have thick skin, for sure, but you also need to laugh at yourself. I make fun of myself all the time.

Before acting took off, I was a professional kiteboarder training for the world circuit; with a sporting activity, you have to be determined, and it taught me to have a thick skin, which came in use after going to so many auditions and being told ‘no.’

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.

You have to have a thick skin if you think what you are doing is right.

I don’t think I’ve got a thick skin, but I’ve not felt particularly humiliated by the things which people think I would have felt humiliated by, such as losing my seat in 1997 and not being elected leader in 2001. In the second case, I felt relieved.

People assume because I have a very thick skin that I don’t have feelings. I don’t, for the most part. But occasionally, I’m capable of great acts of charity. I tend to do it quietly.

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.

Life as an actor has toughened me up, and I’ve learned that you shouldn’t take things too personally. Someone once said that to do this job you need talent, luck and a thick skin – which is so true.

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.

You have to have a very thick skin to run a business.

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.

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.