Gene Simmons Quotes

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.

Am I old-fashioned? I think I might be. I am a lucky woman, because I was born with a priceless gift... the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.

It's always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it's humbling.

I'm not trying to sound like I turned into some kind of wise man, but it's nice to realize that your little pocket of the world isn't the whole world.

If I had one regret in life... it's that I was not more humble at an earlier age.

I feel coming on a strange disease - humility.

What I do is not curing cancer or rocket science or lead mining - anything tremendously difficult or world changing. I understand where I am in the cosmic order of things, and I'm OK with it.

It's just as important - if not more important - to take the praise with a pinch of salt, just as you do the criticism.

It's easy for me to stay grounded because I know I am just a girl, a mother, a daughter, a lover... a normal person who was lucky enough to do this job, and I know it's my job - not the person I am.

Luckily enough I've got great people around me to keep me humble and grounded.

When you're waking up every day, and it's all about you, I don't consider that to be a way to live your life if you can help it. I think people who know me know that I find time to enjoy myself and not take life - or myself - too seriously at all.

The most important thing is to stay humble because there are always people telling you that you're this and that you're going to do that.

Sometimes you have to understand your place.

Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness

You have to see your unimportance before you can see your importance and your significance to the world.

When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.

I pray for humility, honestly, because it's very easy to be caught up in this world.

A good lesson in keeping your perspective is: Take your job seriously but don't take yourself seriously.

It's not that hard to stay grounded. It's the way I was brought up.

I have many shortcomings. I feel very lucky to have been able to have what I've had.

If you say I'm great, thank you very much. But I know what I am. I could be better, man, you know?

My mind is just a product of 50 years of being taught. I'm no smarter than anyone else, but I've been taught by some wonderful people.

Tragedies make you realize how selfish you are.