Undeserved Praise Quotes

If I were the blushing kind, I would blush to be called a hero.

… a pygmy who should not be set on a pedestal

I've got a good record, but maybe, for whatever reason, it's not built up by people. I wouldn't say I'm hard done by. But it's true that I sometimes don't get the praise.

The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.

Look at who people are elevating and deifying in the public eye, and ask yourself what those people have done to receive such lauding and what it is they haven't. When you look at that you say, okay, are these people being revered for something of merit, or are they completely hallow? Or even worse, are they being revered for something that is actually destructive?

Any time you are put in the same category as Jane Fonda, a real legend, it feels surreal, perhaps even undeserved.

If only people fought undeserved praise as much as they do unfair criticism.

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

I know, it's amazing, but I never feel like I have done anything. When people say that, it makes me uncomfortable because I'm not that kind of person. I just go out there and try to do my job.

I was not necessarily the best student. I was not necessarily the favourite kid. I wasn't necessarily the most responsible or the most ambitious, and suddenly, when you get given celebrity, you get anointed with all these lovely qualities that you don't have, necessarily, but everyone assumes you must because you're successful.

It bothers me when people say, 'Oh, you're so down to earth - for an actor.' Even when they don't say 'for an actor,' I feel like that's the implication. Why are the standards so low for performers?

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.

Constant, indiscriminate approval devalues because it is so predictable.

Sometimes I even tell my relatives and my friends that I get a lot of love from the fans, and I'm not sure if it's deserved.

I hate it when people tell you you're good when you know that you're not.

When you're young, you get blamed for crimes that you didn't commit. When you are old, you get credit for virtues that you never had. I guess it all evens out in the end.

It gives me no joy to be praised at the expense of a better artist, by someone who does not know the difference or who thinks me too vain to be aware of it myself.

Do me a favor and don't make me out to be no hero.

Applause is the beginning of abuse

I don't deal well with admiration if it's for something I haven't done. Other than exist.

We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.

Reviews for someone like me come in three packages. One is justifiable praise, the second is justifiable criticism, and the third is, "This is only published because he's a celebrity."

The mindset ideas were developed as a counter to the self-esteem movement of blanketing everyone with praise, whether deserved or not.

People think that I'm some kind of genius who's got these statements to say, and... I'm not really.