Liev Schreiber Quotes

Under all wrongdoing lies personal vanity or the feeling that we are endowed and privileged beyond our fellows.

Unbridled arrogance is worse than pride; for if pride will not break a superior, arrogance will not brook and equal.

I can't really act entitled.

I had this attitude, that Silicon Valley obnoxious attitude, that I know what I'm doing, and the rest was going to be pretty easy.

I find it alarming that people are so convinced they're the best at anything - presenting, hairdressing, getting dressed.

Everyone is an idiot," I stated. "Except me.

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.

By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw.

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.

Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves.

You aren't that big a hot shot that we'd build this for you.

We’ve been an arrogant country.

Pride will spit in pride's face.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it.

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

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

When I did the film 'Hear My Voice' a few years ago, I disappeared fully up my own backside for a while. Because I thought my career was taking off, I became a bit of an egomaniac and a pain in the neck. I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.

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

I was a cocky kid.

As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself.

Vanity is my favourite sin.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.