Jane Pauley Quotes

I live life what I consider to be normal.

People have always thought of me as being something, but I'm just a human being like everyone else.

I consider myself an ordinary person.

I'm a good example of someone who can come to Hollywood and keep their feet on the ground with all the rock stars, all the drama that goes with being here. It's still important to pump your own gas and to be able to vacuum.

For me, 'Harry Potter' isn't something that changed my life. It's just something I did that was a lot of fun and I got to experience amazing things from. But my actual, personal life is the same. Or at least I like to keep it the same.

I don't look at myself as a hero or smart person. I have a seventh-grade education, but I've had a lot of fun.

I'm not allowed to get a big head, I've still got to do the simple things in life.

For the last 12 years, I've felt really privileged to be living such a normal life. It's so a part of who I am.

I am just an ordinary person trying to do an ordinary job.

If you can be a good role model for people, well, great. You try and live your sporting life and the rest of your life as well as you can, and if it's something that people admire, well, fantastic. I don't sit at home and think about it too much, though - there's plenty of other things in my life going on.

Life is a long lesson in humility.

I'm not trying to sound like I turned into some kind of wise man, but it's nice to realize that your little pocket of the world isn't the whole world.

I don't think my life is more interesting than anybody else's.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Being humbled has been a part of my life for a long time.

The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.

I've never viewed myself as above anybody else or anything like that. I'm a regular guy at the end of the day. I like Cinnamon Toast Crunch and The Powerpuff Girls.

What I do is not curing cancer or rocket science or lead mining - anything tremendously difficult or world changing. I understand where I am in the cosmic order of things, and I'm OK with it.

I really am a chick from Long Island who's just learning along with everyone.

As a person, I am still grounded and humble.

I don't see myself as somebody special. I just see myself as Aaron, the same guy I've been all my life.

I was always looking for relatability, because I am not someone cut out for larger than life roles.

My life has been charmed in the sense that I've met some extraordinary people. But at the end of the day, when you go home and you go to bed, and if you're on your own, you never think of yourself in that way. I'm sure not even people like Angelina Jolie think like that.

When you're waking up every day, and it's all about you, I don't consider that to be a way to live your life if you can help it. I think people who know me know that I find time to enjoy myself and not take life - or myself - too seriously at all.

I don't see myself as having had an exceptional life. Yeah sure, I've had an interesting life, but I'm more interested in what's not exceptional about it.