I know that some people view me as a bit manufactured. But I can’t be Whitney Houston: somebody who is polite and perfect and appeals to your mother and your grandfather.
My heroes in real life are definitely my mom for being true to herself, for having a foot in both worlds, for being so very polite – Canadian and also such a traditional Greek woman. I would sum it up this way: the life lesson she would say is be polite while you’re breaking the rules.
‘Curvy’ is just a polite way of saying ‘fat.’
Being a nice person is about courtesy: you’re friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. When people believe they have to be nice in order to give, they fail to set boundaries, rarely say no, and become pushovers, letting others walk all over them.
As a black woman in the industry, you really do have to hold your head higher, stick your chest out, be kind and polite and generous even when you don’t want to be sometimes. I learned that and, also, just to never take no for an answer.
I’ll always remember Vinod Khanna as a thorough gentleman, cultured, polite, who knew how to conduct himself with the ladies.
I don’t write polite letters. I don’t like to plea-bargain. I like to fight.
If you are being interviewed, just be polite, have fun.
I get very annoyed when people think I’m nice or diffident or a polite English gentleman. I’m a nasty piece of work, and people should know that.
When a book of mine comes out, I instantly go hunting the net, not for praise, but for criticism, because that’s how you learn, from people who don’t have to be polite to you.
It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.
My fans are pretty normal, they are always really nice and polite, and they don’t interrupt my meals.
When a man is trying to sell you something, don’t imagine that he is polite all the time.
I married someone I didn’t love. I was too polite to say no.
Canadians are nice and polite. It’s not just a stereotype.
If the notion on this is we’re going to elect somebody to the United States Senate so they can be the 100th least senior person in there and be polite, and somewhere in their fourth or fifth year do some bipartisan bill that nobody cares about, don’t vote for me.
It is something that most parents hope for in life: That their children will be moderately successful, polite, decent human beings. Anything on top of that is something you have no right to hope for, but we all do.
Obviously I’m going to be polite, so nobody has anything to fear from me.
Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet.
I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.
Death is never polite, even when we expect it.
I was suspended for two years and I got really fat. That was a polite way of putting it.
D.C. fans, I think, are so good. They just come up to me, and they’re so nice and so polite and just, ‘Hey, I hope you have a great career,’ and ‘How are you doing, everything’s good?’ That’s pretty much where they leave it at.
Texas, to be respected, must be polite. Santa Anna, living, can be of incalculable benefit to Texas; Santa Anna, dead, would just be another dead Mexican.
As far as I have been able to understand, the Japanese seem to keep things close to the vest. Friendly but remote and polite to the point of being invisible. It is in the music, literature, film and art that the Japanese really seem to express themselves.
Jekyll is quite me: young man; polite. But being able to play Hyde was quite fun, to create a character that’s nothing like me. I quite enjoyed creating a new character like that: he had a different voice; physicality; mannerisms. Everything had to be thought about. It was a real challenge.
Personally, I don’t want to do a lot of angel deals in a year. I get approached a lot. I’m becoming less and less polite, which doesn’t seem to be helping. A lot of the things I get pitched on are from people who just want to make money.
T stands for being nice. T stands for manners. T stands for being polite.
I am definitely not as polite as Beatrice, I have to say. I tell it as it is. I am shyer at first.
I get into an awful lot of trouble for not being polite.
Nobody ever invented a polite word for a killing yet.
Harrison Ford comes on set, and he’s very polite and says, ‘Hello’ to everyone. He cares about everything that’s going on, on set. He cares about what’s going on with your character and what’s in the scene and what’s on the desk.
I’ve been brought up to be polite and I’m not very confrontational, but even I have walked away from situations and thought, ‘If only I’d said or done that.’ Well Mr Hyde says and does that.
I had a holiday job in a kitchen, but I think we’ll draw a polite veil over that. There was nothing joyous or creative about it. And none of this helped my studies.
The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don’t want to be.
The only jobs kids have are to do well in school, to be charming and polite, and be thankful. That’s it. I’ll house you, protect you, I’ll even give my life for you, and in return, you will behave.
It’s weird, but I’m so empathetic; when I see people dying on hot sauce, I do feel for them. And I’m a Midwestern guy, so I think I’m just naturally nice and polite.
And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it’s third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it’s much more polite.
People are always surprised when they spend time with my children by how normal they are. They’re polite. They’re well mannered. They’re very down to earth, in a way.
There is no polite way to say that business is destroying the world.
My mother always told me it wasn’t polite to ask what people make.
I didn’t see deep emotion from my parents. It was all very polite and very surface. I never knew how anybody was feeling.
You find a lot out about people when they’re blowing up, as we say, gasping for air, and if they can still hold conversations and be polite.
It’s a cliche, but the people who enjoy your work and who come up and say, ‘I enjoyed that and I liked that,’ they are the people who ultimately are keeping you in work. And so, it would be rude and ungrateful of me to be anything but polite.
Balanced is probably what I am, although that’s just a polite way to say that you don’t do anything very well.
