Kelvin Fletcher Quotes

It is true that I receive a lot of praise and that is flattering. But I try not to let it affect me.

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.

When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, 'Sexiest Man Alive,' I'm honestly going, 'Thank you. Right on.' For me, it's never canceled out anything, it's never made me go, 'Does this make me less talented of an actor?'

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

I'm very flattered, but I don't think I'm the sexiest man on the planet.

People say to me, 'You're a genius; you're great.' I don't know if I'll ever feel that way about myself. Some things, I feel like, are better left for other people to say, and I'm just not into, like, tooting my own horn or bragging or anything.

I did not have any delusions of grandeur as a kid.

I never get tired of hearing compliments.

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.

The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.

I have a big ego, but I don't buy into it. I can't live off the ego. It's an honor that I get to be that guy onstage. It's not something I earned.

I am no more humble than my talents require.

The more people say nice things about me, the more I feel it's false.

I have a healthy amount of humility.

I don't wake up with some sense of fabulosity.

I'm not that bothered about press nights as an actor or, particularly, by what people say about me, because I see myself as a reasonably small cog.

It's sort of fun. If someone's eyeballing you, it makes you feel good.

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

I'm not a star. I don't feel I'm so great. So how can I make you feel great just because you've got my signature on a piece of paper?

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

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

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

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

It is always positive when you get a lot of praise, but you should handle it the right way.