Danny Boyle Quotes

I don't walk around big headed. I'm not a superstar.

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.

I must have been a really pretentious little girl.

One may be humble out of pride.

I'm a very egotistical person.

If you are too proud, you don't do business.

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

Again, as egotistical as I am, as self-centered as I am, and as much as I love strangers idolizing me, I find it very crass to be self-promoter in a way.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.

Politicians are half ego and half humility.

You're either humble or you're not. If you were a jerk before the fame, you just become a jerk with a bigger spotlight. Whoever you are really comes through.

I was a big-headed little guy.

When I got successful and people started talking about me, I didn't want anyone thinking I thought I was a 'big time Charlie.'

I'm trying not to get too big-headed.

I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.

Conceited little mega-puppy.

Vain men delight in telling what Honours have been done them, what great Company they have kept, and the like; by which they plainly confess, that these Honours were more than their Due, and such as their Friends would not believe if they had not been told: Whereas a Man truly proud, thinks the greatest Honours below his Merit, and consequently scorns to boast. I therefore deliver it as a Maxim that whoever desires the Character of a proud Man, ought to conceal his Vanity.

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

Any time you talk about your own stuff you sound self-aggrandising.

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

You can get a bit 'head in the clouds' - well, I do - and full of myself if I stick in front of the camera for too long. I forget there is hard work that needs to be done.

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.