Zawe Ashton Quotes

I met a lot of famous people when I was about 24. And none of them seemed very appealing. And so I didn't know why I would struggle to be that kind of person.

I could never dream of being cool.

I'm not all that demanding, I don't think. My family might think otherwise.

God, it would be good to be a fake somebody rather than a real nobody.

I don't keep up with the Joneses, I am the Joneses.

On the contrary Deepika feels inferior to other people I was surprised when I realised it. She is straightforward & very giving

His progress through life was hampered by his tremendous sense of his own ignorance, a disability which affects all too few.

People call me a saint and I think, I have to work harder. Because a saint would be a great thing to be.

I haven't accomplished nothing yet - I have a long way to go.

I never think that anything I do is courageous.

I don't think as highly of myself as some people make me out to be. I am so far from arrogant, because I have been through enough to know that everything can go away in a moment. You know, I really don't understand why anyone would want to put me on a pedestal.

The gratification which affluence of wealth, extent of power, and eminence of reputation confer, must be always, by their own nature, confined to a very small number; and the life of the greater part of mankind must be lost in empty wishes and painful comparisons, were not the balm of philosophy shed upon us, and our discontent at the appearances of unequal distribution soothed and appeased.

I'm so pretty, it's hard for me to think of myself as intelligent.

I never aspired to be up front. When I was a kid, I didn't ever look in the mirror with a hairbrush going, "Hey, I'm Elvis!"

Modesty is hardly to be described as a virtue. It is a feeling rather than a disposition. It is a kind of fear of falling into disrepute.

Am I a hero? I really can't say, but yes.

I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world.

No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments.

I never really consider myself as a great artist. I just always like to draw.

Who wants to be a millionaire? And go to ev'ry swell affair?

Even from the first it is meek to seek the impossible.

If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself.

I will never reach perfection.

I had no proof that I had the stuff to be an artist, though I hungered to be one.

When they say I'm a great actor, I close my ears because it's not good for you to think that way.