Chris Long Quotes

Any of us in the public eye must remember: Never, ever believe your own press, and pray to develop a hypersensitive gag reflex regarding your own importance.

Long ago, I had to sort of learn to have a thick skin to read some of the things you read in the papers and to also keep my ego in check when you read some really flattering things in the papers.

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.

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

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

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

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

I've had times when I've done what seems like a thousand interviews to promote a film that I'm in. I start to think that I'm the best thing that ever happened to the world, talkin' about myself for cryin' out loud. Then I come home, and my wife needs me to help with dinner and empty the garbage, and the kids need help with their homework.

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

There's simply too much fuss about myself.

I'm quite modest. I don't want to tell people I'm a leader.

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

I can’t talk about myself that way. Whatever I did before was just in line with my work. I can’t be saying I, I, I all the time.

Douglas MacArthur was a man of high abilities. However his view of his abilities was much higher. A great leader has to be a little self effacing. A cannot imagine Douglas MacArthur ever being self effacing.

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

Pride is a thing that I have tried to abandon completely. Try as I might, pride still creeps into many of the things I do.

I cannot stand all the people who take themselves very seriously, who cannot just laugh at themselves.

I know that people hate me. And I know I'm just a hack journalist and what we do on 'Lifestyles' isn't what you would call television brain surgery.

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

I kind of want to take the writer down a peg. I think there are a lot of pretentious writers in this business, which I am certainly one, in certain cases.

Don't put yourself on a pedestal. Because it's very easy for someone to knock you off.

Frankly, my head can never be bloated.

In the offseason, sometimes I'll go on Google and see if anything's up about me, if anything's being said about me.

Pride leaves no room for grace.

We ought always to beware of making the smallest claim for ourselves.