Margot Asquith Quotes

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

I'm not that interesting!

I never think of myself as a heroine.

One who has an inferiority complex can never be really humble, but can only have false modesty or false humility.

If I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know I'm lying.

I don't do pride. It seems to me to be a very unpleasant thing.

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.

It's funny, because I never think of myself as Little Miss All-Together.

I guess I'm reasonably confident in all honesty. But I definitely don't think I'm arrogant. I'm pretty down to earth, I mean I'm genuinely down to earth.

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

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

If people are like, 'Oh, you're an icon,' then whatever. But who thinks of themselves like that? It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall.

I don't see myself as the Hunk of the Month.

Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.

You know, I'm really not that bright.

I don't think of myself as hot or cool or anything, just a dork.

But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.

I don't see myself as such an important guitarist.

I'm only a stupid filmmaker.

I don't think I'm beautiful. I just think I can scrub up OK.

Well, actually, I don't consider myself a jazz legend or anything.

I don't consider myself a star or a celebrity or anybody, you know. I just think of myself as doing something that I love to do.

Anything nice that's said about me is diametrically opposed to who I am.

I'm not painting myself as a down-home, modest guy.

I don't see myself as a personality. I'm just another little guy.