Carey Mulligan Quotes

When people call me God, I say, no, I'm still an angel or saint of acting. I still have a long way to go.

I don't want to be perceived as someone who has it all figured out. I certainly don't feel entitled or like I'm a superstar. I'm still growing, learning, and figuring things out.

I'm still 19, and I've got a lot to learn. I've got to keep improving and not get too carried away with myself.

I was very ambitious as a young actor, but I wasn't good at being ambitious.

When I first started out in the entertainment business, I made a list of people I thought it would be good to meet. Not people who could give me a job or a deal, but people who could shake me up, teach me something, challenge my ideas about myself and the world.

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

I don't think I'm a star. I just love to act. I'm not thinking I'm even close to where I want to be.

I appreciate the idea that anybody would think of me as a star. But I'm really not career oriented in the sense that I want to be a star. It's not in me. It's not what I do. In fact, I'm amazed that I've even gotten this far.

I wanted to start with a very small role, to get my feet wet. I'm sure I'm not as good or as experienced as other actresses, but everybody has to start somewhere.

There's no blueprint for where I should be. I see myself as a young, good actor who still has a lot to learn. There's nobody at any point in their career who is the finished article.

I wouldn't presume to know something, but I have lots to learn and that's what I attempt to do through my work.

I don't like to appoint myself to nothing, knowing I'm no better than anybody else. But it always makes me feel good to know I try to do the best I can, and those who might observe say, 'Hey, I can take a little something from that person.'

I never felt I was better than anybody, but I always felt I could compete with anybody.

I was so busy climbing up this ladder, staying above the water. If there was only room for one woman in a room, I wanted to be her. I'm not proud of it. I certainly don't feel that way now. It was an absolute evolution for me.

I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.

And I laugh at myself for thinking I could touch the sky.

I have the absolute confidence not to be number two, but then I have enough sense to realize that there can be no number one.

Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.

I'm not nearly as important as I used to think I was. It's a wonderful discovery.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

You have to do a lot of listening, you don't just learn out of yourself.

I never had a driving ambition to be a star.

I think I've always been ambitious. It just looks different on me. You know, I have friends who are actresses who go to every party they possibly can to be photographed and really try to make every connection they can, and I admire that and sometimes I wish I had a little bit more of that. Sometimes I feel like I don't have enough ambition.

I wasted most of my 20s being so frustrated I forgot to have fun. I was so concentrated on one thing - 'Must make movie.'

If you are not egotistical, you will welcome the opportunity to learn more.