Hugh Jackman Quotes

I love knowing that I'm not better than any other person on the planet.

I learned, especially from my mother, to respect the profession and take it seriously, but not take yourself too seriously.

A dose of humility goes a long way in life and in politics.

I think my parents did a great job of reminding me that I wasn't as big a deal as maybe I thought I was at times.

Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring.

Take your work seriously, but never yourself.

There's a window in my life which is football. I try to remember that it's not going to be there forever. That's why staying humble is important; knowing who I am and the message I'm sending out. I always try to be a person first, before I'm No. 55 on the football field.

If you can be a good role model for people, well, great. You try and live your sporting life and the rest of your life as well as you can, and if it's something that people admire, well, fantastic. I don't sit at home and think about it too much, though - there's plenty of other things in my life going on.

You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that's fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others.

Football players should always remember there's a whole lot more to life.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Take your job seriously, but don't take yourself too seriously.

I found going to school when I was modeling very grounding. It's really kept my perspective on bigger things in my life.

Always take your job seriously, never yourself.

I have some realistic humility which comes from my first career as a writer. I wrote for other people for ten years. I saw some incredible egos not based on any reality. They were great when they were on top and awful when they weren't. I learned a lot about how to treat people.

If you aren't humble, whatever empathy you claim is false and probably results from some arrogance or the desire to control. But true empathy is rooted in humility and the understanding that there are many people with as much to contribute in life as you.

When you're waking up every day, and it's all about you, I don't consider that to be a way to live your life if you can help it. I think people who know me know that I find time to enjoy myself and not take life - or myself - too seriously at all.

Sometimes you have to understand your place.

As long as I keep it real, I learn something from everyone. And when you view yourself as a student and not as somebody who's bigger, there is still learning that can be done every day, and that keeps you open-minded and more ready to learn about life and love.

If you can't laugh at yourself, you don't deserve to laugh at anybody else.

Don't ever judge anybody. You don't know who anybody is, period... You gotta humble yourself. Just because you are where you are, it doesn't mean you aren't talking to someone great.

Be loving, and you will never want for love; be humble, and you will never want for guiding.

Life experiences can, at times, be quite humbling, but you learn from them. But I like the changes in my life and what kind of person they've made me into. I'm very open, not as judgmental as I was in my twenties, and a lot more compassionate.

My cousin once told me, 'You're tall, you're handsome - and you're gonna have to apologize for it the rest of your life.' He imparted that information to me.

Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn.