Baron Corbin Quotes

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.

Growing up as a chubby kid with a ton of imaginary friends and a Cyndi Lauper obsession, I learned about rejection early on and was constantly trying to avoid it.

The hardest part is just hearing people saying that I won't amount to crap, and that I'm going to be a bust.

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

It would probably break my heart to hear that people didn't like me. I don't look on the Internet.

In high school, people wanted to find the worst in me.

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 worry that I can come off smarmy. I wonder if I was listening to myself if I'd want to kick my own ass.

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.'

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

I've learned to develop a thick skin, but you're bound to be affected when you read something bad about yourself in the paper and it's rubbed in your face over and over.

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!

No matter what, like, I couldn't - I could break a world record, get an Olympic gold medal, and my mom would be, like, you could have done better. But you looked pretty. That's what she says all the time.

I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off.

And it is easy to believe you are not good enough if you listen to everybody else.

I think the hardest part about being a teenager is dealing with other teenagers - the criticism and the ridicule, the gossip and rumors.

You can get a million comments about how beautiful you look and how awesome you are, but the one comment that says they hate you and you're ugly is the one that sticks.

I looked on IMDB, at the message boards there, and someone had posted something about a sheep having more talent than me.

When the eyes are on you for the first time, you can't believe that people aren't criticising you.

Fame is hollow. It amplifies what is there. If there is any self-doubt, or hatred, or lack of ability to connect with people, fame will magnify it.

I don't want to think about how many people have thought or still think that I'm crazy.

I've stopped worrying about whether people think what I do is any good. I've taken stick in the past, and I've genuinely worried and got incredibly upset.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It's easy to get discouraged in life.

I took a lot of bad things after Athens. I just learnt to deal with it. The problem was beforehand I had this feeling where I was trying to please everybody - I wanted everybody to like me.

I really fell into drama school - I had a lot of lot of luck. I didn't take criticism very well while I was there; in fact, I took it personally. With every note I got, I felt like they were telling me I was a bad person.