A Quote by Shawn Mendes

Definitely, it's hard being a young artist and being taken seriously.

Shawn Mendes

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Shawn Mendes
Canadian - Musician
Born: August 8, 1998

I definitely think that being a model makes it more difficult to be taken seriously. And I understand. I don't take it seriously sometimes.

Amber Valletta

If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too seriously.

Billy Wilder

It's hard to be taken seriously if you're a young, female artist making pop music; you never know how people are going to react.

Alessia Cara

I was definitely acutely aware, the transition of being seen as a child actor to being taken seriously as an adult actor. It's not always a smooth one.

Malcolm-Jamal Warner

I think it's significantly easier to be a female writer today than in the early 1800's. That said, it's hard to imagine almost anyone who knows anything about publishing disagreeing with the statement that women writers today are often taken much less seriously than men writers. But it's hard to quantify, and even define, what being taken seriously means.

Curtis Sittenfeld

I am an artist, and I understand the pros and cons of being an artist, and the pressures of being an artist, and how much being an artist can be torture to people around you; you know, you friends and your family and how material you can be, and how it's hard to take criticism and all the things like that.

David S. Goyer

Being taken seriously as a young woman is the biggest hurdle as I grow older.

Petra Collins

The fact that people are embracing me so well as a new artist and being taken so seriously is something I'm really surprised by.

Alessia Cara

It's definitely hard being taken from your dream, especially when you're trying to accomplish something.

Naomi

People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.

Patrick Dempsey

It was hard to be taken seriously being model-turned-actress. I needed to work on my acting chops. There are so few parts available that are good for women.

Amber Valletta

It's not easy to go from reality TV to being taken seriously as an artist, so I don't think I'll be doing reality TV again because of that.

Chanel West Coast

I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?

Kate Bush

For me, the heyday was in 1959. It was before the Ferus Gallery moved across the street, in the days when Ed Kienholz and Walter Hopps ran it. At that time, art was taken very seriously in terms of being an artist, and not as a profession.

Billy Al Bengston

I do care about the consequences of being negative toward people who are powerful. But I'm more afraid of not being taken seriously as a critic - by editors, by readers.