Flattering Quotes
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I'm a dark blonde, yes. I dyed my hair blue, then black, when I was 14. I thought the colour was more flattering and matched my skin tone. I don't think I'd ever change back unless it was for a film.
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It is true that I receive a lot of praise and that is flattering. But I try not to let it affect me.
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I don't think she [Marilyn Monroe] saw herself as victimized and a sex object. She knew how to contend with it. I'm sure she was no fool about it. On the one hand, it was very flattering and great; on the other hand, it was probably awful and could be very lascivious and very terrible. But I think a lot of women just wanted to be like her. And that's still true today.
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Few people ask from books what books can give us. Most commonly we come to books with blurred and divided minds, asking of fiction that it shall be true, of poetry that it shall be false, of biography that it shall be flattering, of history that it shall enforce our own prejudices. If we could banish all such preconceptions when we read, that would be an admirable beginning.
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I often get mistaken for all different kinds of ages; some of them flattering, some of them not.
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Often times I'm confronted with a quote that I don't remember saying. So, on one hand it's very flattering, it is just so surreal.
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It was very flattering when Manolo Blahnik named a shoe after me.
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The world loves to be amused by hollow professions, to be deceived by flattering appearances, to live in a state of hallucination; and can forgive everything but the plain, downright, simple, honest truth.
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The only people that recognize me are the hardcore fans, and I always find that really flattering. I think it is super cool.
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It's brilliant to get recognition. The CFDA was magic because it's such a big award in our industry. There's nothing more flattering than being honored by your peers.
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The fact that audiences have come away moved, excited, entertained and stimulated by the film is extraordinarily flattering.
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I don't think I've ever had a strange fan interaction. Just any time anyone is willing to come up and say hi or something like that, it's very flattering.
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Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.
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The first time I remember women reacting to me was when we were filming Hud in Texas. Women were literally trying to climb through the transoms at the motel where I stayed. At first, it's flattering to the ego. At first. Then you realize that they're mixing me up with the roles I play - characters created by writers who have nothing to do with who I am.
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When people call me a sex icon, it's flattering but it never goes to my head because I never felt sexy as a teenager.
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Say less than the other fellow and listen more than you talk; for when a man's listening he isn't telling on himself and he's flattering the fellow who is.
