Ellen Page Quotes

I don't find myself that interesting as a human being, so I don't really think that much of what I say or do warrants being recorded.

I do think that I am fundamentally the same relatively simple person I've always been. I just have this flashy, wacky job [actress] that confuses people into thinking that I'm somehow ultrafascinating.

It just bothered me that you might think I'm somethin special. I aint.

I'm not the kind of guy that really thinks I'm a celebrity or feels that I'm important or anything like that.

Everyone in Kiss is replaceable. My ego will tell you that I am not, but that's not so.

I'd rate myself an 8. I do have my flaws, but I'm a cool dude. If I wasn't myself, I'd kick it with me. I'm a down-to-earth person and all around cool guy.

You know, public service is serious enough on its own, and what I've found is if you take yourself take yourself too seriously in this business, you'll lose sight of what it is that you're trying to get done. So I mean I've tried to have the proper mix of being a serious public servant, but also still being a regular guy.

I find it very hard to take myself seriously.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

That's why I never took this business too seriously, thinking I was something special, when I knew the truly great performers in motion pictures. pictures.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

I am the kind of guy who has never taken myself too seriously. I mean, I am very serious about what I do; I'm very serious about the creative process and everything, but at the end of the day, I am just another lucky geek who got to live out a dream, you know?

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

I'm not that bothered about press nights as an actor or, particularly, by what people say about me, because I see myself as a reasonably small cog.

I never feel like a smug or a smart-alec film director, and there are plenty of those around.

I'm not going to say, I'm an actor and I'm changing the world. Who cares?

I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.

I don't have an ego; I'm not egotistical or anything like that.

I don't think of myself as a role model.

Always take your job seriously, never yourself.

I'm not great enough to be humble.

I have no business carrying myself like some diva.

My ego and my vanities have nothing to do with comedy.

So, one way or another, I found myself in a few movies. I take it seriously when I'm on the set, but I don't take myself seriously as an actor.

I don't take myself seriously, and I think the ones that do, there's some sickness with people like that.