A Quote by Luis Suarez
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.
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I just loved kicking a ball but I was determined to be a footballer and I wanted a professional contract, I would go to any professional club to get one. From 15, all I wanted was to be a footballer.
As an actor, you have to get used to being told no, develop a thick skin, and just keep persevering.
It was very hard for me as a kid to get through as a footballer in Uruguay.
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.
When you leave a big club and go on loan to a small club in Holland it is not easy. But I am a footballer and I have to be professional about my job.
I have been attacked by media critics and just critics of my own for years. And that, unfortunately, is part of the job in 2016 America. I was used to that. And I've developed a thick skin.
That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
I don't want to grow a thick skin. Some people say, "Oh, you're an actress, you have to get used to criticism." But I don't accept that. I'll never get used to criticism, and I'll always care about whether or not people like my performances - because I'm an entertainer, and I want to please.
There have always been huge musicians and poets in Uruguay, but Uruguay is a well-kept secret.
But I was just a normal person really. You see, I didn't get it in my head that I was just a professional footballer for Arsenal Football Club.
You have to have a thin skin. As a creative person, you have to. You can't get a thick skin.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When you work in TV you have to develop a thick skin, and I have certainly grown used to criticism.
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