Martin McDonagh Quotes

I have no business carrying myself like some diva.

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.

Most people think I'm immodest.

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

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

I'm not great enough to be humble.

I don't choose to be humble.

I'm trying not to get too big-headed.

I was a really pretentious teenager.

Clearly I've got an ego.

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

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.

You can get a bit 'head in the clouds' - well, I do - and full of myself if I stick in front of the camera for too long. I forget there is hard work that needs to be done.

I must have been a really pretentious little girl.

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.

I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

I feel arrogant trying to give people advice.

If I was sharp in every area, I might be too big-headed or something.

You don't want to be flattered and become big-headed by getting awards. But, well, I am.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

I never wanted to come off as self-important.

On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.