Augustus Hare Quotes

I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.

You can get a bit 'head in the clouds' - well, I do - and full of myself if I stick in front of the camera for too long. I forget there is hard work that needs to be done.

I feel arrogant trying to give people advice.

If I was sharp in every area, I might be too big-headed or something.

My mom has always said that if I get a big head, she'll take me out of this business as quickly as I got into it.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

I'm not great enough to be humble.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

One must be arrogant, indeed, to imagine that one can take everything in one's hand and know everything!

I'd never want to get too big for my boots.

Frankly, my head can never be bloated.

I'm keenly aware of the Pride coming before the Fall . . . but I really do like what I've been able to do here.

It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore.

Don't be humble... you're not that great.

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

When I did the film 'Hear My Voice' a few years ago, I disappeared fully up my own backside for a while. Because I thought my career was taking off, I became a bit of an egomaniac and a pain in the neck. I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.

But we're born as children and we look at the world with open eyes... And we don't judge and we don't betray. We're not jealous. We're not envious. We're not even weary, which is a danger also as kids. They have to learn a certain amount of awareness.

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

The day I get too big for myself, my mum will slap me down!

I am still simple, just as if I were beginning.

The only cure for vanity is laughter, and the only fault that is laughable is vanity.

I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.

I said I was 'The Greatest,' I never said I was the smartest!