Quotes About Adversity

I've been talked about for way over 20 years or more so my coat of armor is pretty thick, so I learn what to say and what not to say.

Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself.

There's going to be good things that get you, and there's going to be bad things that get you, so you better be willing, and your skin better be thick.

Over the season, the games come thick and fast, and in some games, you aren't so lucky.

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

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 inherited my father's thick skin, which helps me deal with trolls.

I have a thick skin, which comes from being a not-really-skinny, dark-skinned Indian woman. I haven't fit in every place, and so I'm kind of used to resistance.

Growing up in Manhattan has given me a thick skin.

I have a thick skin.

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.

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

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

I've been booed in Holland and in Uruguay - as a professional footballer, you need to have thick skin and just get used to it.

You have to develop a very thick skin.

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.

Having a thick skin doesn't mean that you're hard or harsh. I was lucky because I was born with a thick skin. That doesn't mean that things don't bother me, but you have to keep it in perspective.

Being a fabricator is fun, amazing and empowering but you'll need to put on your thick skin to face opposition on a daily basis.

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.

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'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.

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

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.

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.