Smriti Irani Quotes

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

Many people have this image of me. For a long time, I cared about that.

It's just being me, man... If you get caught up in people saying you're good and people saying this or that, good or bad, it can kind of wear on you. Or it'll make you feel like you're better than what you are.

They're just opinions, what people say about you. None of that stuff's true. The only thing that matters is what you think of yourself.

I'm not one of those people that has to look myself up every five seconds to see what people are saying. That's been really helpful. I mean, you get thousands of compliments, and then one person will say something negative - and that's all you'll remember, that one person.

I cannot be so bad when everybody is so fond of me.

What people think of me and my playing is up to them, not me.

I try not to think about what people think of me. You can't, because then you get hung up in all the people who love you, and you've also got all the people who hate you, because of what you're doing.

With a fractured sense of self, we come to depend on what people feed back to us - often mediated through social networks - not what we are. We have complex identities but may become less able to act as a subject - confident in what we really are.

Consider what people think of you, but don't be afraid of what people think of you.

You can't control how other people see you or think of you. But you have to be comfortable with that.

I don't dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don't know, people's perceptions of me. I truly don't.

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

When you become a slave to a public persona and don't feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield, and it shouldn't come at the expense of your self-worth.

I'm not that interested in what people make of it, or how people consider me. That's nothing to do with me.

I don't really care if people think I'm good-looking or not; it doesn't define me as a person.

The funny thing is, I'm so used to not caring what anyone says, good or bad, that unfortunately even when people say good things... I wish it made me feel good, but it doesn't.

We think of ourselves as our titles or our jobs or our position in a family. We depend on being praised by others. But something happens when that praise is undermined.

If my dancing is a disaster - it doesn't define me as a person.

I don't fixate on other people's opinions of my body.

I have this theory- that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have.

Well, you know, when people say stuff about you, it's always really flattering. But does it mean anything to me? It's not really real to me; there's no reality to it.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am.

Fame is damaging when people become reliant on it for their sense of self, and their identity, when fame is linked to how you see yourself.

I don't want to get hung up on what 'people,' that nebulous mass, think about me. That's the way to unhappiness, I think.