Marianne Lake Quotes

I never really try to over-promote myself; I never have.

I don't have a need to promote myself.

I don't like selling myself. It's a sort of shy arrogance.

Self-promotion has never been a point, and I'm incredibly inept at self-promotion.

I come from an academic background. I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.

I'm my best billboard.

Part of ego is displaying the ego. I've got ego, and I think I'm really good. But maybe I fall down in trying to sell it to people.

I don't know why people feel that I am snooty. I am not a person who has ever given an interview on image building. I have never been that person, as I am very confident of what I do. People do PR, but I get completely foxed. I don't know how to do it. I stay away from the limelight, as I think my work should speak on my behalf.

I'm as self-promoting as the next guy.

I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.

I'm not really a flirt; I just try to be myself.

I should be known for my work and not how I promote myself and what I do.

Nobody thinks of themselves as sexy, really. Some days you go, 'Hey, I'm not going too bad today.' But if you try and be sexy, you'll never be sexy.

I'm the worst person about publicizing myself.

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

My father used to say, 'Let them see you and not the suit. That should be secondary.'

I think that I have never had the confidence to really aggressively get behind myself, and so what I do tends to be - I don't want to say 'sheepish,' but there is a sheepish quality to my ability to toot my own horn. I'm very Midwestern in that way. So I just do what I like to do, and what I think I do well is not very loud, necessarily.

If I have to go around telling everyone how great I am, then there's something wrong with my act.

I'm not the type of woman who shows off my body; I'm a vocalist and I'm a writer and I think people see that more so than they see anything else. That's just who I am.

Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.

I have never been interested in presenting myself.

Self-promotion is not my strong suit, for sure. I don't look down on it; I just don't understand how to do it.

To sell yourself is somewhat debasing, and everyone is selling something.

I have no interest in feeling like a trophy. Money itself has never been attractive to me; instead, I prefer ambition and integrity.

I am not saying I don't think I'm good, but I'm not the type of player to have an ego or big myself up.