William Fichtner Quotes

In Hollywood, a lot of acting feels like grandstanding.

The more you know the less you need to say.

Men must know their limitations.

I am not overconfident.

I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.

I guess you can tease me about being a drama queen, because that did heighten the drama.

I love drama - mum calls me a Drama Queen!

I thought acting was showboating.

My belief is that we should never become overconfident.

I think that always, as an actor, I don't want to overstep or pretend that I'm doing anything more than I'm doing.

I never take that for granted, but I'm always very aware that I'm one person and I can't wear everything.

We must know, if only in order to learn not to know. The supreme lesson of human consciousness is to learn how not to know. That is, how not to interfere.

The wise speak only of what they know

The master proves himselin recognizing his limitations.

To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else.

Knowledge is not wisdom: cleverness is not, not without awareness of our death, not without recalling just how brief our flare is. He who overreaches will, in his overreaching, lose what he possesses, betray what he has now. That which is beyond us, which is greater than the human, the unattainably great, is for the mad, or for those who listen to the mad, and then believe them.

We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.

Long experience has told me that to be criticized is not always to be wrong.

If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone.

You can make it all right if you will only be satisfied to remain small," I told myself. I had to keep saying it over and over to myself. "Be little. Don't try to be big. Work under the guns. Be a little worm in the fair apple of life.

Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty.

In a really great way, you simultaneously try to take up as little and as much space as possible.

I get a kick out of it, but it would be stupid to let it go to my head. It's modeling - I didn't find the cure for cancer.

I know enough now to know I know nothing.

True humility is not in the absence of confidence but strength restrained.