Francis Jeffrey Quotes

Being accused of enthusiasm is something I'll never live down.

We're fragile, fragmented souls who are very sensitive to criticism.

I have given my all Funny how you could always make me feel small

Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial.

I am dreading the publication, for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to be shot at.

You go through spells where you feel that maybe you're too sensitive for this world. I certainly felt that.

And as they pass, turn back and laugh at me.

I'm sensitive and get easily upset and insulted.

For some reason, people look at me and laugh. I don't know why.

I've had countless reviews sort that have made me cry. It's funny, it doesn't ever get better either; you can't turn your ears off.

Actors in general have some place in them that can be sensitive and easily damaged: not damaged in a bad way, but insecurity, because that's what it breeds, especially in females and female-lead types.

I mean, I haven't been around very long. I can't expect everyone to have seen 'The House Bunny'. Oh God. I am having such waves of internal embarrassment, which now I'm admitting on a tape recorder. This is so one of the things I should keep in my head.

People laugh at me. Sometimes I know why, and sometimes I don't.

It is not the broken heart that kills, but broken pride, monseigneur.

In falling over in heels while trying to look attractive, you don't just hurt your body, you bear the humiliation of injuring your very soul. Physical pain? Whatever, bring it on. But the humiliation? Oh, you have seen to the very weakest part of me.

I'm not thick-skinned at all, and of course I'm hurt by people attacking me as a person.

It hurts when people put you down.

Like most people, I can be very easily hurt.

When I'm called unkind... that really cuts to the quick. You can say anything else that you like about me.

You read glowing things and it doesn't feel deserved. You read things that are critical and it cuts you to the bone.

I was ashamed for people to see me struggle.

You know when you tell a self-deprecating story at a dinner party, everyone's laughing along with you? But then when someone else repeats that same story at another dinner party you feel they're all laughing at you?

I'm a big girl, but I have a delicate constitution emotionally. If I've been humiliated in some audition, I just cry all the way home and think, 'Oh my God, I suck.'

Being a sensitive, thoughtful person opens you up for criticism and being affected by it.

I have to say that I am embarrassed about how emotional I am.