Eduardo Galeano Quotes

I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty.

I don't know what people expect me to be like, but I'm very down-to-earth and not at all full of myself.

I'm not the kind of guy who wants to be on a pedestal.

I think when you're as talented as me or you, you don't need to have an ego. On a serious note, the people I most admire in the world in my field have never shown that much ego to me.

I don't want to be like some of those celebrities walking around, just so full of themselves. I always want to be down-to-earth, want to be a person like when you meet them, they're the same person that you think of them in the article or something.

I certainly don't have any airs about myself.

If I had been egotistical about the movies, I have been brought back to earth.

The compliment that I like more than anything is when my family tells me I'm the same Ryan. I never want to become a celeb who forgets about anybody or has a big head about himself.

I don't take myself seriously, I don't think of myself as a star.

I'm a humble guy, I'm pretty down to earth.

Humility is the forgetfulness of self.

Plenty of people want to be pious, but no one yearns to be humble.

Being humble is cooler than being famous.

I think it's noteworthy that the Almighty didn't act high and mighty. The Holy One wasn't holier-than-thou. The One who knew it all wasn't a know-it-all. The One who made the stars didn't keep his head in them. The One who owns all the stuff of earth never strutted it.

If there's anything I'm not pompous about, it's myself or my work. But I seem to be able to play it.

Don't believe the hype. I don't care how many number ones you have at the box office, I don't care how much they say you're great, don't believe it. Just stay in your lane and do what you're supposed to do.

I have no self-centeredness or ego about being a movie star.

I don't think I ever had a swollen head: I remember where I come from.

I don't want to believe my own hype.

We've stayed really normal and down to Earth I think, and haven't let the success thing go to our head.

I have a very down-to-earth father. My wife is an actress and famous herself is more down-to-earth than anyone I know.

I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.

Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.

It's a crazy world, stardom. I don't even think of myself as a star. I just like to go to work.

I guess I don't take my stardom too seriously. I think I am one of the guys.