Julia Roberts may an Academy Award-winning actress, but early in her career, she struggled to overcome harsh criticism.
“I don’t think I entered into my career with much confidence,” Roberts told People Magazine in a recent interview.
Roberts, who broke through as an actress with films like “Steel Magnolias” and “Pretty Woman,” said that in her early 20s she encountered “a few critical people who were really cruel.”
“Being insecure, it can be crippling. So if someone embarrassed me, it stopped me,” she recalls. “I was apoplectic, so learning to navigate that — because this is not an industry to be in if you can’t take criticism or harshness or being embarrassed.”
Instead of being discouraged, Roberts chose to view those situations as an “interesting challenge for me to decide the kind of person I wanted to strive to be,” she told People.
