John Chrysostom Quotes

If you walk into a room and one hundred people say, 'You are a lovely, beautiful person', who isn't going to be affected by that? But you have to tell yourself not to value that. You have to tell yourself - or at least I do - to not become accustomed to hearing applause in any way, because I think that's dangerous.

I'm a sucker for a compliment.

We all want to be praised, right?

It's always flattering when you get compliments, but it's more of a measure of who you are at the time than anything else.

I don't want to stand with somebody's praise.

A man who does not love praise is not a full man.

Criticism? An artist wants praise. Praise.

When we seek appreciation from others, we get not appreciation, but flattery.

Appreciation, applause, approval, respect - we all love it!

I do have at home the most ridiculous number of awards for what I have done, which is nice in terms of being patted on the back, yet it does cure you of caring about what other people say about you. Ultimately, you must have your own standard of what is good enough.

I don't sense that I am someone's hero, though I'm happy when people like my work. I've learned how to be gracious about it, but I try to let it go by. I've seen how, if people start taking on those accolades, it can ruin them completely.

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!

Many know how to flatter, few know how to praise.

Am I really cool? You're telling me I'm cool? Well, that's good to hear.

Acclaim is a distraction.

I need the applause.

It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.

We think of ourselves as our titles or our jobs or our position in a family. We depend on being praised by others. But something happens when that praise is undermined.

I don't know that praise is always a good thing.

I like approbation. Any actor who tells you they don't is lying.

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.

I have a folder where I keep all the articles the critics have written about me. It makes me feel good.

It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause.

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.