It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.
Populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo Ipse domi stimul ac nummos contemplar in arca. (The public hiss at me, but I cheer myself when in my own house I contemplate the coins in my strong-box.)
As long as my team wins games, who cares what people say?
My family, doctors, and society at large were constantly telling me that I was too heavy, that I needed to exercise more, that I should be smaller.
The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.
The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I contemplate my treasures in their hoard.
I was under pressure because of what people were saying about my physique.
I have no control over what people call me. The only thing I have control over is my work, and that's really all I can be judged on.
I think I have an innate inner confidence, one that I don't feel I need to prove all the time. There will be times throughout your career when it does dip a little bit. Whether it's from within, or something you guys have written.
You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of that energy goes.
We cannot let external criticism, even if it's true, fortify our internal foe. That foe is strong enough already.
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
I, for my own part, had much rather people should say of me that there neither is nor ever was such a man as Plutarch, than that they should say, "Plutarch is an unsteady, fickle, froward, vindictive, and touchy fellow.
What people don't normally know about us is the hustle is very real, and it's sorely driven a lot by how we consider ourselves. We don't pay a whole lot of attention to any type of judgment that we might get from outside people. I think that comes from growing up onstage.
As far as all players [being unfairly connected], people have their own opinions, and they're usually from the outside looking in. I don't listen to someone who is on the outside of what we're dealing with every day on the inside.
I don't want someone coming in and passing judgment on my life.
Everybody saying you can't do this, you can't do that. I don't know why. Guess if you listen to it, you can convince yourself of it.
I hear that I dress like a boy and that I should be more girly, which I can understand, but I just focus on what I want to do and enjoy my time with fans who love me for who I am.
We can be so hard on ourselves. And other people can, too - there's so much criticism out there!
Interviews and public opinion about me never mattered. I know exactly who I am.
Fortunately, I've never had to be too critical of my own work, because the world is critical enough.
There are people out there who want me to fail, who want Jude to fail, who want our relationship to fail.
There's nothing worse than winning but being told by people that you're losing.
We express disappointment in everything except ourselves.
Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt.
