Tabu Quotes

If I was sharp in every area, I might be too big-headed or something.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

I've got it all: I'm good-looking, I'm educated, I can sing, and I can play rugby. Ridiculous, isn't it?

I said I was 'The Greatest,' I never said I was the smartest!

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.

I'm not great enough to be humble.

Don't be humble... you're not that great.

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

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

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

Arrogance - I have very little tolerance for that.

I don't choose to be humble.

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'd never want to get too big for my boots.

You can sometimes get the big head and overlook things.

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

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.

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

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.

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.

If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down.