Gregory Hines Quotes

If I took myself too seriously, I would be a mess every day because the world keeps my ego in check.

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.

If I had been egotistical about the movies, I have been brought back to earth.

On my visits back home, if they saw that I was getting a big head, they'd let me know right away.

People around me would never let me get too big-headed. At the end of the day, you're just another human being.

There are a lot of people very sure of themselves that need to be brought back down to Earth. As good as they think they are, they're really not.

Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.

The minute I get swelled up about something, something has always brought me back down to earth.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

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

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer.

Whenever I start feeling too arrogant about myself, I always take a trip to the U.S. The immigration guys kick the star out of my stardom.

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

If I thought of myself as a movie star, I'd be an idiot. I don't know anyone who thinks like that. I don't even know movie stars who think like that.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

I don't want to believe my own hype.

If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens.

I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.

Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty.

It's not that hard to stay grounded. It's the way I was brought up.

I don't want to take fame for granted because that is when you start to think you are better than everyone else. That is when you start thinking that you are someone that you are not.

On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.