Peter Kay Quotes

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.

A lot of self-importance goes on in the fashion industry. I'm not like that.

Any time you talk about your own stuff you sound self-aggrandising.

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

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

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.

I'd never want to get too big for my boots.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

When I did the film 'Hear My Voice' a few years ago, I disappeared fully up my own backside for a while. Because I thought my career was taking off, I became a bit of an egomaniac and a pain in the neck. I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.

I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

Egos turn me off, big time.

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

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

Pride and vanity, the opposites of humility, can destroy our spiritual health as surely as a debilitating disease can destroy our physical health.

I have no business carrying myself like some diva.

Frankly, it's embarrassing to have a house filled with giant portraits of yourself.

We say little, when vanity does not make us speak.

I've got it all: I'm good-looking, I'm educated, I can sing, and I can play rugby. Ridiculous, isn't it?

I don't know how humble a person can be while consistently spouting statements like 'I, Donald Trump, am a totally gifted politician,' or 'I'm, like, a smart person.'

I find it alarming that people are so convinced they're the best at anything - presenting, hairdressing, getting dressed.