Francesca Annis Quotes

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.

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 certainly had an arrogant streak. And I certainly was defensive in certain cases. Maybe I'm still arrogant, but I try not to be.

You're all right, as long as you don't believe your own hype.

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

I try not to be proud. I try to actively attack pride.

The only way to get under me is to get over yourself.

If I had been egotistical about the movies, I have been brought back to earth.

I thought I was so much smarter than everybody. And I'm not.

One who is shy will never gain knowledge, nor one who is proud.

I think I've certainly learned a lot of lessons in humility and continue to work on that part of myself.

I really don't look at my accomplishments. I really don't think about myself much.

I had it in my mind: to be confident, and to keep saying that until the confidence appeared. But I took it too far. Confidence did help make me champion, but, man, I took it to a whole different level. I was a megalomaniac. I was not humble and it eventually came back on me. So I want my kids to know, keep humbleness and kindness in their hearts. It will prevail.

Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it.

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

I have a bit of pride, which is always my downfall.

It's not vanity to know your own good points. It would just be stupidity if you didn't; It's only vanity when you get puffed up about them.

If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realize that one is proud. And a biggish step, too. At least, nothing whatever can be done before it. If you think you are not conceited, it means that you are very conceited indeed.

Do not try to be humble: learn humility.

If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.

In my younger days, I was arrogant - jail helped me to get rid of it. I did nothing but make enemies because of my arrogance.

Without humility, we keep all our defects; and they are only crusted over by pride, which conceals them from others, and often from ourselves.

When you're working with music that is invariably better than you are, it's difficult to become swell-headed.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.