Hugh Jackman Quotes

There is a danger in believing your own hype.

I believe that people start to get into trouble when they start to believe their own hype.

Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

I'm just another guy who thinks he's smarter than he is, in a long line of them.

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.

Who think themselves most wise are greatest fools

You never want to inhale your press clippings.

National glory is a deceiving seducer. When it reaches a certain height, it clasps the head with an iron band. The enclosed sees nothing in the mist but his own picture; he is susceptible to no foreign impressions.

The minute you start believing your own success, you're on the road to ruin.

Some say I'm arrogant, some say I'm deluded.

You have seen in football that if you start to think you are the 'Special One,' or that you are better than the others, that is the moment when you will be beaten.

I think about the people that I've seen change because they believed in their own hype. I just never want that to happen to me.

Pride is less ashamed of being ignorant, than of being instructed, and she looks too high to find that, which very often lies beneath her.

Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed a too high opinion of ourselves founded on the overrating of certain qualities that we do actually possess; whereas vanity is more easily satisfied, and can extract a feeling of self-complacency from qualifications that are imaginary.

In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the judgment of everyone else, usurping what is not their own by setting themselves up as judges in their own cause when the rightful judge is their superior.

We're all victims of our own hubris at times.

Actors think they're far more important than they are, and that can only lead to hurt. People with colossal self-importance have very far to fall.

As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk.

Always beware your moment of triumphalism: such emotions are a poor steer on the future.

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head.

In hindsight, I slid into arrogance based upon past success.