Jeremy Davies Quotes

Self-promotion is not my strong suit, for sure. I don't look down on it; I just don't understand how to do it.

I don't have a need to promote myself.

Part of ego is displaying the ego. I've got ego, and I think I'm really good. But maybe I fall down in trying to sell it to people.

I come from an academic background. I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.

I'm my best billboard.

I never really try to over-promote myself; I never have.

I am not saying I don't think I'm good, but I'm not the type of player to have an ego or big myself up.

I don't like selling myself. It's a sort of shy arrogance.

I'm really bad at self-promotion.

Sell yourself first, if you want to sell anything.

The thing about Hitchcock which is quite extraordinary for a director of that time, he had a very strong sense of his own image and publicizing himself. Just a very strong sense of himself as the character of Hitchcock.

Submitting myself for awards feels like a weird kind of horn-blowing that's not comfortable for me. I'm really happy when someone likes my work, but I don't like marketing myself, putting myself on display.

I did decide that you have to put your name about a bit, and so, although I would have preferred to have never done publicity or an interview or a fashion shoot for a magazine or a chat show.

I'm the worst person about publicizing myself.

I guess I'm about ready to promote myself in a more human way. I don't feel quite so insecure.

I think as far as self-promotion goes, I probably have a lot to learn.

One who is shy will never gain knowledge, nor one who is proud.

I have never been interested in presenting myself.

To sell yourself is somewhat debasing, and everyone is selling something.

I hate publicity. The only publicity must be through my work. I can only talk about myself in relation to work. I know about work - but I don't know about me.

I don't consider myself a massive self-promoter, and I don't feel I've ever had to behave in a way that didn't come natural to me in order to progress.

I'm as self-promoting as the next guy.

I am not immersed in self-admiration.

Now, I'm not the kind of guy who likes to look in the mirror and say, 'Oh, you're the best.'

When you're working with music that is invariably better than you are, it's difficult to become swell-headed.