Danielle Darrieux Quotes

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

I'm a show-off basically... always have been.

I think I might actually die of showing off. It'll be on my headstone - 'Cause of Death: Showing Off.'

I don't like showboating. I was never a fan of showing off.

Show-offy, I could sometimes be accused of.

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

Well, my whole thing is that I'm kind of like a show-off!

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

I've gone through guys who want to lay on their backs and play like they're full of themselves. You know, I don't care about posing. I mean look at me, do I care about posing?

I wanted to show off - a simple impulse or drive; in much the same way as some kids wanted to play football, I wanted to show off. Not complicated in that sense, very natural; it just depends on how you want to show off.

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

What fun is life without a bit of showing off?

The person who talks most of his own virtue is often the least virtuous.

There's no point in swanning through and being cool as a breeze in every scene. It's not really that interesting. Even if you're a superhero.

Sometimes showing off produces results.

Sometimes I feel like you can toot your own trumpet too much. I don't really like that.

It's a vain craft, acting.

I always showed off when I was a kid.

Hansel is certainly about comfort, while still sort of having a peacock principle of wanting to attract attention.

I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, "Without vanity I may say," etc., but some vain thing immediately followed.

Vanity is a strange passion; rather than be out of a job it will brag of its vices.

I never wanted to be 'the big I-Am.'

When I was at Watford I was very greedy. I just wanted to show off my skills.

Nothing is more untoward than a grown man tasking another with snapping a pic expressly so he can 'flex the 'fit.' It's tacky -self-aggrandizing - and speaks to an existential neediness typically reserved for failed actresses and phenomenally successful rappers.

Modern football tends to bring out the narcissism of those who sit on the bench.