Neko Case Quotes

If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.

I certainly never get above my station - my family would soon slap me back down to earth.

Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth

When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time.

I have never been interested in presenting myself.

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

I do not want to be the center of attention. I think it's just the way I was raised; the way my parents were.

I never pushed the envelope of wanting people to know me, or be on the covers of magazines. I just want to enjoy what I'm doing.

I've got this brilliant thing where I go, 'I'm Robbie Williams', and people are interested in what I want to say - which is amazing because I'm just an idiot from Stoke-on-Trent.

The only sure way of avoiding these evils [vanity and boasting] is never to speak of yourself at all. But when, historically, youare obliged to mention yourself, take care not to drop one single word that can directly or indirectly be construed as fishing for applause.

It's fun to write about myself, but I feel like I would bore people with that.

The way my father raised me, we don't pat ourselves on the back. We don't call ourselves great, we let other people do that.

I hate talking about myself, I find it such a boring topic. I'd much rather talk about other things.

People seem to be interested in me. So I try to keep my acting pretty simple.

Well I don't want to talk about myself, that's so rude and egotistical.

I wake up every day and look at my own ugly mug in the mirror and don't think twice about it. The fact that other people might want to look at me still feels funny. It's flattering, but funny.

If people are like, 'Oh, you're an icon,' then whatever. But who thinks of themselves like that? It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall.

I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'

I don't know how to explain how, probably to my detriment, unselfpromoting I am. I used to have a cabaret act and I didn't even like to tell me people about that. I really hate selling myself.

I was brought up to think you don't talk about yourself.

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

I don't like talking about myself. I'm not really interested in myself. One of the good things about being a supporting actor is that you get to talk about other people.

I'm shy by nature and don't like talking about myself, and would let my films do the talking.

I'm not the 'look at me' kind of a person. I do not like showing off in public or written about.

I've never been interested in self-promotion and that side of politics; and if that means people judge that you're less prominent than others, that's a choice I've been willing to make.