Jean-Jacques Rousseau Quotes

I'm quite proud of some of the films I've done, but less for the acting than for the fact that they're unpretentious and entertaining. I'm proud of having made unpretentious choices.

I never want to be pretentious.

I'm not intelligent. I'm not arrogant. I'm just like the people who read my books. I used to have a jazz club, and I made the cocktails and I made the sandwiches. I didn't want to become a writer - it just happened.

It's so rare, actors who are not vain.

I never want to be one of those artists who feels untouchable and extraordinary. I have to be genuine.

I'm a simple man and success doesn't go to my head.

I don't know what people expect me to be like, but I'm very down-to-earth and not at all full of myself.

I'm not a glamorous girl.

I am a very simple person. In spite of all that has happened to me, I have tried to remain the simple person I started out.

Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am.

I am a simpleton at heart. In my personal life, I don't wear makeup.

I like attractive people who aren't so terribly aware that they are attractive... people who aren't afraid to roll on the floor and make fools out of themselves.

I have no self-centeredness or ego about being a movie star.

I'm not someone who is glamorous all the time.

I certainly don't have any airs about myself.

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

I was taught to value hard work. At the end of day, I'm just Olivia.

It's very nice to be in a show where your vanity is completely out of the picture.

Someone once told me that something they really liked about me was that they thought that I was really down to earth and not high-maintenance. I think that was cool. It's important to stay grounded.

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.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

I'm direct, I'm unpretentious and I'm pretty dogged, and I hope I've got a capacity to laugh at myself and not take myself too seriously.

Don't believe your own publicity. You can't; you'll start thinking that you're better than you are.

The compliment that I like more than anything is when my family tells me I'm the same Ryan. I never want to become a celeb who forgets about anybody or has a big head about himself.

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