Joely Richardson Quotes

You know when you're young, you have this unbelievable stupidity and arrogance and ignorance all mixed in?

I regret nothing, says arrogance; I will regret nothing, says inexperience.

At 20, you're cocky and you think you can rule the world, and you get it all wrong.

When I made my first film, I was arrogant and over-confident.

When you're young, you're cocky.

I was a cocky kid.

I was a little bit of a cocky kid.

Let the degree of egotism be the measure of confidence.

It's only hubris if I fail.

I'm rarely wrong.

Always beware your moment of triumphalism: such emotions are a poor steer on the future.

When I was in my twenties, I thought I was bulletproof.

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.

I got by on talent. That was my fatal mistake.

When I knew nothing, I thought I could do anything.

There's a disease that young writers are susceptible to, which is, I will do this because I can - hubris, I suppose - without stopping to work out why.

I know I had been successful in football. I had been successful in broadcasting. I didn't think that anything could touch me. I thought, I can beat anything.

We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.

At 17, we all think we know what we're doing.

I was spoiled in a very strange way as a child, because everybody told me, from the moment I was able to hear, that I was absolutely marvelous, and I never heard a discouraging word for years, you see. I didn't know what was ahead of me.

Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.

Massive self-confidence is boring.

I've been asked a lot lately what message is there in the Lusitania for the modern day. To be honest, not much. Except that maybe hubris and overconfidence are always dangerous things.

I am proud of my immaturity and political inexperience.

I can be a little cocky.