Top 1200 Thick Skin Quotes & Sayings

I don't like the idea of [having] a thick skin. I think we [should] be more childlike.

You have to have a thick skin if you think what you are doing is right.

I've got thick skin.

Growing up in Manhattan has given me a thick skin.

You have to have a very thick skin to run a business.

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.

I've learnt that you need to have a thick skin, lots of patience and be consistently good.

I have a thick skin, but I have a heart.

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

I will never grow thick skin, so that you don't have to feel bad about being a jerk to me.

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

I have kind of a thick skin.

I'm a confident woman with thick skin, and as a model in the public eye, I'm conditioned to accept criticism.

We've had to develop a super-thick skin. We've been beaten up more than any band in history.

Now it's time to play a brand new game called Name That Barcode. Here's the first one: "Thick black, thin white, thick black, thick white, thick black, thin white." OK who's going to identify that?

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

When I was younger, I was very thick-skinned - my skin is actually getting thinner as I get older.

The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.

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.

You know, I have a very thick skin.

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

We lived in Germany; my father was in the Army, and they figured I would have more consistency at boarding school. That kind of gives you a thick skin.

I have a thick skin.

You have to have a thin skin. As a creative person, you have to. You can't get a thick skin.

I have 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.

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

You have to develop a very thick skin.

You gotta have a thick skin to be a fighter.

I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent; my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.

Develop a skin as thick as a rhinoceros hide!

You cannot do what I do for a living without having a thick skin.

Having been a journalist for thirty-nine years, I've developed a pretty thick skin.

Negroid traits, dark skin, flat, thick nose.

Am I ever gonna grow thick skin? No.

The ocean is a place of skin, rich outer membranes hiding thick juicy insides, laden with the soup of being.

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

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

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.

As a Test cricketer you expect that at times you're going to be heckled, and you must have a thick skin.

I have combination skin so if I wear too thick foundation, I can feel it sliding off in areas, and then I'm conscious of it all day.

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.

You have to have a thick skin, yes. If you're going to do something as foolhardy as standup, you've got to be able to take it on the chin if someone has a go at you.

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.

What I do is sometimes - at least in Germany - met with wounding campaigns. I always face the question: should I grow myself a thick skin and ignore it, or should I let myself be wounded? I've decided to be wounded, since, if I grew a thick skin, there are other things I wouldn't feel any more.

I've been in the entertainment industry - wresting, but the entertainment industry since 1989; if you have thin skin, you're going to have a tough time in this town, but I've got thick skin.

My skin is too thick and bullet proof to touch me.

It takes a strong stomach and a thick skin to be a female activist fighting online censorship in Pakistan.

You have to have really thick skin. Art is obviously there to be criticized and there to be taken in different ways. Not everyone is going to like what you do.

A thick skin is a gift from God.

You develop a thick skin. And once all the chips have been played, you make sure you're working on behalf of Arizona.

Fox is notorious for having a very thick skin about taking shots at themselves.

Warriorship is so tender, without skin, without tissue, naked and raw. It is soft and gentle. You have renounced putting on a new suit of armor. You have renounced growing a thick, hard skin. You are willing to expose naked flesh, bone and marrow to the world.

You have to grow thick skin and that only comes with time and learning.

I bring values, resiliency, a thick skin, and I'm not afraid to be confrontational. I don't remember anyone before bringing that to the table.

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.

I've got a thick skin.

Even through the darkest phase Be it thick or thin Always someone marches brave Here beneath my skin

I've got thick skin and an elastic heart.

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.