Barbie Ferreira Quotes

I've built up such a thick skin. It's very easy to take one comment - whether it be a really mean comment that digs deep or just something rude - and really run with it. It's so easy: if there are 100 comments, and 99 are nice, you just run with the bad one.

I'm a big boy with big shoulders and I've had some real world issues so getting some stick online doesn't bother me.

At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months.

I read our emails every day and I know there are people out there who think I'm awful.

You have to develop a very thick skin.

I had to learn that some people are just not going to like you. I had to have thick skin when I would see what people would say or write about me.

Using social media to hurt and destroy is callous, acted out by cowards hiding behind computers. My advice is to ignore negativity. Focus on the love around.

While my season of 'The Bachelorette' was airing, people would call me awful, awful names. They'd question my integrity and character.

I believe social media gives away a lot to people. I got this impression long time back when my friend was on Twitter, and he got trolled because he posted his opinion about something. He was very upset about it, as he didn't expect that people will reply in such a nasty way.

When you have a lot of followers, you get the good and bad. So I had a career out of it. But unfortunately, I had people hating on me every single day.

You just have to learn to live with the criticism even if it is unfair. It is a fact of life.

Being slagged off is good for you. It thickens the skin and strengthens the backbone.

Develop a skin as thick as a rhinoceros hide!

Occasionally I’ll be sitting somewhere and I’ll be listening to someone perhaps not saying the kindest things about me. And I’ll look down at my hand and I’ll sort of pinch my skin to make sure it still has the requisite thickness I know Eleanor Roosevelt expects me to have.

The more vile the thing that's said about me, the less it affects me. It doesn't bother me at all.

Anyone can go online and write anything they want about people they don't even know, and most of the time, that is fueled by hate. The sad part is that people actually believe what they read online.

I put myself out there; it's part of my job, and I get it: people will attack me. At first I was thrown off, but now I have a pretty thick skin about it.

There are people I've blocked for a long time who will still respond to every single person that replies positively to me on Twitter. I have quite a few cyber-stalkers like that.

It's a healthy thing to get some bad criticism. I'm still here and I'm fine, but I'd be lying if I said it didn't get to you reading the negative stuff.

I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.

I get a lot of abuse on Twitter. It's mostly homophobic, but what can you do? I just either ignore it or laugh.

I don't want people to see me fall. I mean, I got enough people cheering for me to fall now... The Internet has created some amazing place for evil to exist, you dig?

There were websites erected to figure out how to kill Alanis. I just do not need to see this; it's not good for anybody.

I read a fan bulletin board once, and somebody said I had a face like a potato, so I never went back on there.

With every social media, there's hate and things like that.