Claudia Gray Quotes

I don't think of myself as hot or cool or anything, just a dork.

I'm drawn to girls with a certain self-effacing, humorous quality and an innate independence and point of view. I love the notion of never taking yourself too seriously or being too put together.

I've never been the kind of guy to hype myself up. It's just not my thing.

I just don't believe the hype. I just don't take myself too seriously. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.

Style? I have no style.

What qualifies me to tell people how to act or what to think? I'm Charley Pride, country singer. Period.

I'd rather call myself a mischief-maker, an imp, rather than a satirist. Satirist sounds so self important. Plus no one is calling himself an imp right now. It makes me feel special.

One of the things I love about Helena Bonham Carter is that she is ravishing, but she does as much as she can to play it down and look funny. She doesn't let her looks get in the way. I hugely respect that.

I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.

If I'm the biggest artist in the world, cool, but I want to just be me.

I'm not a shiny pop star.

The Funkasaurus character was great and it taught me about being humble, about the character, about not being concerned with what people think you should be.

I joke with people - and Kyle Shanahan used to say this - that my swagger is having no swagger, but that kind of becomes my thing.

I was not trying to be shocking, or to be a pioneer. I wasn't trying to change society, or to be ahead of my time. I didn't think of myself as liberated, and I don't believe that I did anything important. I was just myself. I didn't know any other way to be, or any other way to live.

Believe it or not, I swear I'm just a human being.

Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.

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

I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was.

I'm a Ford, not a Lincoln. My addresses will never be as eloquent as Mr. Lincoln's. But I will do my very best to equal his brevity and his plain speaking.

Self-promotion has never been a point, and I'm incredibly inept at self-promotion. Talking about myself is a little less inspiring than talking about the character.

I know that I present very - they say that I present very, very calm and very, very smart, very articulate, elegant. Yeah. And I go, 'Brilliant teams of makeup and wardrobe happened to dress me and clothe me and put my face on and do my hair. And then these brilliant teams of writers give me words to speak. I just need to make sure that I have them all in this combination in my body, in my being, and then I get to do it on camera, in front of a brilliant team of camera workers who really know how to like me and make me sound good.' So I'm just really a dork in real life.

Do not try to be special. If you are simply ordinary, more ordinary than others, you will become extraordinary.

I wasn't thinking so much of music. I wasnt thinking so much of perfection or stardom or any of that stuff.

We actors can't take the credit. We love to try to claim the credit.