Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
I probably get strangers coming up to me two or three times a week to just say something nice. I get more than my share of compliments as I walk through my daily life. I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.
It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.
Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I had rather you would point out my defects, for that will teach me something.
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
Leave me to the thing I love. I love acting. But being called 'the greatest living actress' - a designation not even my mother would sanction - is the opposite of good or valuable or useful. It is a curse for a working actor.
The kids put you on a pedestal. I didn't like it.
Why am I popular? I don't know. Is it a mistake? I should think it's a mistake somewhere.
It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
I don't deal well with admiration if it's for something I haven't done. Other than exist.
Guys aren't used to out-of-the-blue compliments.
Sometimes it irks when people come up in the street and say, 'Oh I'm a huge James Bond fan' - when you obviously want them to be a fan of your work in particular.
Lolo Jones came up to me and said, 'Well done, Greg,' and I don't think I've ever spoken to her in my life.
It is an honor that I have neither earned nor deserved
