Tucker Carlson Quotes

When you begin to believe you have license because you are a special person breathing special oxygen, that's when you're in big trouble. That's the road to insanity. And a lot of people in the studios are like that. They believe that they are special. I do think actors are blessed, or cursed, with maybe a slightly heightened awareness, which you have to use.

Under all wrongdoing lies personal vanity or the feeling that we are endowed and privileged beyond our fellows.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

He spoils his undoubted talents by his excessive assurance, his contempt for other people's point of view, and his attitude of a king in exile.

It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional

A couple of people I knew went to university apart from me, but all the way through I was the smartest kid in the school. That's luck, but I was proud of it. And I was also proud of doing well without trying. As you get older, and it took me a long time to realise it, that's a disgusting attitude, revolting.

I have no business carrying myself like some diva.

I know that I am not entitled to anything, and when somebody thinks they are, that's a step in the wrong direction.

I can't really act entitled.

The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.

Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.

... the belief in a superstratum of human beings ... is the most evil of all beliefs. For when you say, 'I am not as other men' -- you have lost the two most valuable qualities we have ever tried to attain: -- humility and brotherhood.

We frequently are troublesome to others, when we think it impossible for us ever to be so.

In prosperity let us most carefully avoid pride, disdain, and arrogance.

It is, indeed, a trial to maintain the virtue of humility when one can't help being right.

Pride blinds people to the truth of what they are.

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

There can be something cruel about people who have had good fortune. They equate it with personal goodness.

Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.

If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.

Clearly I've got an ego.

Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.

When I did the film 'Hear My Voice' a few years ago, I disappeared fully up my own backside for a while. Because I thought my career was taking off, I became a bit of an egomaniac and a pain in the neck. I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.

They are so knowing, that they know nothing.

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.