Freida Pinto Quotes

Long ago, I had to sort of learn to have a thick skin to read some of the things you read in the papers and to also keep my ego in check when you read some really flattering things in the papers.

I know I'm being judged, and anyone who works in the public eye will get some negativity at some point. It can be tough and it hurts. I can be very tough on myself. Occasionally, I hear or read something cruel and I'm shocked.

When I get hate mail, I get really down on myself, and I read it to my mom, and my mom is like, 'So what? Who cares? These people don't know you, so you can't take the praise or the hate to heart.'

It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.

It's taken me a long, long time to figure out how to deal with negativity, because it used to really upset me. I was always that girl that, if I was performing in the club and there was one person not paying attention or not liking me, the whole club could be packed with people loving me, but I'd be obsessed with that one person.

A lot of things that were written about me bothered me, like my mentality was not good.

Criticism can be devastating. When push comes to shove, we are all very sensitive.

To pick up the paper and read about yourself getting slammed, that doesn't start your day off right.

You can't be sensitive, because you're going to get criticized. I don't care who you are, you're going to get criticized.

On a single day, I read articles where I was described as being alternately 'lanky,' 'pudgy,' 'doughy,' 'balding,' 'utterly forgettable,' and 'constantly irritating.'

I stay off the Internet, because I'm very sensitive to commentary. There could be 10 comments of 'Fabulous job!' and one 'She's horrible!' and it completely throws me.

Sometimes I get extremely disturbed with the things that are written. But you can't do anything about it. As a celebrity, you are putting yourself out there to be judged, and that's fine. I am now learning not to get affected by such things. I am building my career and making choices that I think are right while minding my own business.

I tried not to let all the criticism affect me, but it obviously does not go unnoticed.

Anything people say about me I don't care. I really don't care. You read so much terrible stuff about yourself it sort of just ends up washing over.

I don't mind if what they write about me has some truth in it. Pure imagination makes me feel sad about the whole thing.

It can beat an artist down when people say bad things about you.

I've had to learn not to read all the bad comments, or if you do, try and not take it into your soul, body, brain, and heart.

I read one thing, and 100 people can say good things then you read one bad thing that says you're the worst and you believe them.

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.

I was very vulnerable to criticism for many years. I could read a bad review and remember it my whole life.

When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.

Being in the public eye, there will always be negatives. Those dark aspects will always be there and, so too, those things that will try and tear you down, but I have made the choice not to engage with them. I'm not going to let them affect me or destroy me.

When people direct insults at me, I can take it.

As an actor, you can certainly, at any moment and at any time, discover 400 people who think you're stupid, fat and ugly.

I'm not an idiot; I try not to look, but I see what people say about me on Facebook. I see other things written. But I don't care.