Jamie Foxx Quotes

When you have any kind of success in life, that's like the most dangerous moment that you're in because you're going to tend to think wow, I can just keep repeating what I've done. I'm a great person. People love me. All of the sudden they're giving me all of this attention. You get drunk on it and you lose your sense of balance and your sense of detachment. I know it's happened to me.

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

Just because you have given five successful films doesn't make you God.

When stardom gets on your head, you don't even realise.

After Stand By Me came out, people were telling me, 'You're so good,' 'You're going to be a star,' and things like that. You can't think about it. If you take it the wrong way, you can really get high on yourself. People get so lost when that happens to them. They may think they have everything under control, but everything is really out of control. Their lives are totally in pieces.

You're all right, as long as you don't believe your own hype.

People get successful and they start saying, 'Well of course I am! I was chosen! I'm special!' No, you're not.

Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.

To me, my biggest fear is getting a big head, and that is when I get the hammer. Because it's very easy in this game to believe you're something special.

Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.

People who are successful should never forget that it's 90 per cent luck. You've got to be an eejit to be an egomaniac. I had my glory years - 'Blankety Blank,' the talk show, when I was winning every award going.

Nothing recedes like success.

Success can set the table for tragedy if the victors are not careful.

When artists get very big, they kind of forget that that's why they got big.

I was an arrogant man. I not only thought I could manage my life without help, I wanted it that way. I had best-selling books and a TV show and movie contracts; I felt invincible, secure in the thought that everything was my doing. And then, like all arrogant men, I came to stumble.

If you are too into the fans and adoration and the world thinking you are the greatest, then you do not perform well.

As a band gets more successful, there's a danger of falling in love with your own shadow.

Think about what makes a band burn out. They get too successful too fast. And then they take it for granted. And they get entitled. And they get picky. We don't ever allow ourselves that possibility.

I've seen guys who had the craziest amount of talent growing up and let that hype and whatnot and the money go to their head.

When I got successful and people started talking about me, I didn't want anyone thinking I thought I was a 'big time Charlie.'

You have seen in football that if you start to think you are the 'Special One,' or that you are better than the others, that is the moment when you will be beaten.

I was unbeatable - until I wasn't.

I'd never want to get too big for my boots.

I feel when a new comer acts in his first film, he starts feeling top of world and nature changes due to the stardom. And then downfall starts to happen.

I think once you start to think that you're the man, and you know it all, and your style is unbeatable and stuff like that, that's when you get caught and clipped and get humbled really fast.