A Quote by Eliza Scanlen

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.

Eliza Scanlen

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Eliza Scanlen
Australian - Actress
Born: January 6, 1999

In the performing arts you have to have thick, thick, thick skin, because of all the rejection you face on a daily basis, and the fact that work never lasts for very long. But you need thin, thin, thin skin in order to access all of your emotions and your creativity so that you can express it. You can't be dead inside. Otherwise you've got nothing to give. So it's a paradox, that we have to exist in both planes in order to do what we do.

Audra McDonald

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

Emun Elliott

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.

John Irving

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

You have to develop a very thick skin.

Gabrielle Union

Develop a skin as thick as a rhinoceros hide!

Eleanor Roosevelt

To survive, China had to open up to the West. It could not survive otherwise. This was after many millions have died of hunger in a country that was like North Korea is today. Once we became part of global competition, we had to agree to some rules. It's painful, but we had to. Otherwise there was no way to survive.

Ai Weiwei

I think over time you learn to know a bit more about yourself - you develop a certain amount of self-insight and self-awareness, and you know what you can absorb, and what you cannot; what gets to you and what doesn't.

Kofi Annan

You have to be self-reliant and strong to survive in this town. Otherwise you will be destroyed.

Joan Crawford

A woman with opinions had better develop a thick skin and a loud voice.

Anya Seton

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

Susanna Reid

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.

Taylor Swift

If your friend is critical [of your work], you have to have a very thick skin and a thick skin is something that only builds up after it's callused for awhile.

Damon Lindelof

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.