John Howard Quotes

I'm not claiming to be anything out of the ordinary. I am not especially big or strong or brave or intrepid.

I'm not the coolest person in the world. I'm not the sexiest Diva or the strongest Diva. I know who I am. I'm not the most popular person, and I'm kind of dorky, and I'm someone you can see at your school or as your neighbor, and I think people like that.

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

I'm like every waitress in every diner; I'm like every mom driving her kids to school. I'm nothing special at all.

I don't consider myself to be an extraordinary person.

I am an ordinary man.

I consider myself an ordinary person.

Unlike most other people, I'm just an average person.

You couldn't get less royal than me.

I know me, and I know that I'm not somebody that particularly merits a lot of screaming and shouting. And there's nothing special about me as opposed to hundreds of thousands of other people everywhere.

I'm not a philosopher, I'm just a simple boy from East Ham.

I'm an average, everyday girl.

I'm really a normal person.

I'm really just a normal person.

I'm a common dude.

I am not flash at all really, never have been.

I've always kind of been the guy next door who just happens to fight for a living. I tried to figure out what was special and marketable about me early on in my career and I realized that there's absolutely nothing special about me, so I wanted that.

I'm just a normal person.

The things [Pope Francis] has done in a short period of time: the fact that he does not live in a huge papal mansion and just dropped by in the dining room where ordinary people have meals. You think of his background, where he didn't use limousines in South America, that he used public transport.

The average person is either a weakling, or just a happy person who wants to get along, or thinks being tough is having big muscles and strutting around town and having a good-looking girlfriend.

Until I came along all the leading men were handsome, but luckily they wrote a lot of stories about the fellow next door.

I'm not having to show off or make a point about how good I am at doing something. I think I've always kind of been that way.

I think that the so-called average person often exhibits a great deal of heroism in getting through an ordinary day . . .

The last thing I want to turn into is a fat Hollywood jerk. I was brought up without much money and I was happy. I don’t think that I will strive for money or success and end up greedy or big-headed. That only leads to unhappiness. I can still be down-to-earth and do this job as long as I enjoy it.

I'm just being myself. I'm not a very complex guy; I'm not a very studious, crazy intellectual guy. I'm just a guy.