Undeserving Quotes

I feel very undeserving. I feel the award is a bank loan, which I`ll take out and pay back by the end of 20 years, and by then I`ll feel more deserving. - On receiving his Lifetime Achievement award from the Directors Guild of Great Britain.

(about being a child star:) "My childhood success came and went real fast. Between 12 and 16, I grew -- as much as I was going to, anyway -- and no longer looked the same. Like most child actors, I found it a difficult adjustment. Still, I`ve done so many things that I wasn`t associated with one thing. I`m an actor, not a celebrity. When recognition became an issue a few years ago, part of me felt undeserving. Desperate to maintain my popularity, I was performing all the time. Then, I caught a glimpse of myself at the MTV Music Awards -- dressed in leather, grasping for jokes -- and set about changing my habits. Now that I`ve stopped trying so hard, I`m more comfortable in my skin."

Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex.