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John Irving Quote: 'I have pretty thick skin, and ...'

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


Emun Elliott
Tags: You Just Get
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I've got thick skin.


Curt Schilling
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It takes a strong stomach and a thick skin to be a female activist fighting online censorship in Pakistan.
Rebecca MacKinnon
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.
Freida Pinto
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My biggest bits of advice are, write as much as you can, finish what you start, get a thick skin, don't take crap from anyone, but also live your life and have fun. The stereotype of a writer holed up alone all day is really unhelpful. You can't write real people and real emotion if you don't let yourself experience them.
Victoria Aveyard
Freud was the son of a Jewish merchant who had to move his whole family to Vienna because he couldn't get work. He, as a boy, had to watch his father be mocked and abused on the street for being Jewish... You develop a thick skin and you develop a certain kind of wit to defend yourself.
Viggo Mortensen
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I think with every part you do, you become a better actor. I've learned from my experiences on that.


Zach McGowan
Tags: You Think I Think
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I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away.


Jerry Pournelle
Tags: You About Think
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I think I'm a much better painter than an actor.


Sylvester Stallone
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I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor.


Jonathan Frakes
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I think writing is such a great talent, and if I was better, I would love to be a writer.


Shiloh Fernandez
I think of myself as a character actor, compared to a straight actor. I know a character actor in England is pretty much the same as in the States; you're actually hired to put on terrible teeth and stuff like that.
Burn Gorman
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I've gone pretty high at times so I think the yin yang of that is going pretty low.


Rick Springfield
I've never had a writer's block, but still I think: 'Is it going to happen this time?' You never know what you're going to get; you just put your fingers on the keys and hope.
Elton John
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You just have to be comfortable in your own skin before you jump into something where people that you're going against are going to be better than you in some way every time.
Tiffany Thornton
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I don't think once you book a part you should stop going to class. I think you should constantly remind yourself that you're working and that you're working on getting better.
Tiffany Thornton
Tags: You Think I Think
Only those with skin as thick as elephant hide can hope to sail through their teens unscathed by self-doubt and bouts of depression.
Mariella Frostrup
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Some actors, I think, want to feel that they are as creative as the writer. And the answer is, frankly, they're not.
John Cleese
I think I have handled things pretty well last year and this. What I have to do now is try do it even better.
Amelie Mauresmo
I think when people go into something for the right reasons, you're going to get a better film; you're going to get more intimacy and a stronger foundation of trust.
Steve James
Tags: Trust You People