Mason Cooley Quotes

My performances have finally caught up with my ego.

Every man has a right to be conceited until he is successful.

I like to think I am the best there is at what I do, and so I have conquered the world like Alexander. But I don't believe I am the reincarnation of Alexander the Great.

Yes I have made a lot of money and I have a lot of respect, my films have done well, and I know there are loads of loads of people who look up to me and really love me. I really just thought this is like a strange dream. I have never thought this is a success - I don't have a standard.

I'm not great enough to be humble.

People say to me, 'You're a genius; you're great.' I don't know if I'll ever feel that way about myself. Some things, I feel like, are better left for other people to say, and I'm just not into, like, tooting my own horn or bragging or anything.

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 have as big of an ego as it gets, but I have, stunningly, a lot of humility considering some of the accomplishments I've had.

Clearly I've got an ego.

I did not have any delusions of grandeur as a kid.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

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

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

This arrogance thing... I've had that my whole life. I flip between, 'Oh really? Oh, thank you. Wow. That's amazing' and, 'Yeah! Of course I am.' They're both varying degrees of a self-defence mechanism. It can be from minute to minute that I change.

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

I definitely don't think that I'm hot doo-doo. I don't.

The only thing I want to say is, I know I'm not Einstein, but I'm not the queen of the imbeciles either.

I do believe that I deserve what I have. I don't think I'm entitled to it. That's a big difference.

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

I am no more humble than my talents require.

You need ego but mine is not blinding.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

Somebody ought to tell him his ambition is showing.

People who know how much they're worth aren't usually worth that much.

It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.