George Clooney Quotes

Nobody is as good as he thinks he is.

I thought I was so much smarter than everybody. And I'm not.

The more people that praise you, the more there is danger to develop arrogance.

It's not terrible, people telling you you're great; what's terrible is when you start believing it.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

I don't want to believe my own hype.

I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.

Every time I am in danger of believing the glamour of my own press, some incident inevitably brings me back to earth.

Don't put yourself on a pedestal. Because it's very easy for someone to knock you off.

There are a lot of people very sure of themselves that need to be brought back down to Earth. As good as they think they are, they're really not.

I never want to get caught up in praises. Never want to get caught up in people telling me how good I am.

I don't want to be that guy that thinks he is a high draft pick and that he has it all.

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

I think I'm somebody who takes praise with a very big - probably too big - pinch of salt.

I am not young enough to know everything.

I'm good at what I do, but I wouldn't be so bold and arrogant as to say something disrespectful about, say, Eminem. He's talented and he's good at what he does.

I have always despised people who thought they were better than others, and I made a promise to myself that I'd never turn into that kind of person. My family also helps to keep me grounded. Whenever I get a 'diva moment,' as they like to call it, they let me know it and say, 'Stop acting like a diva!' They're pretty good at it, too.

You can get a bit 'head in the clouds' - well, I do - and full of myself if I stick in front of the camera for too long. I forget there is hard work that needs to be done.

Confidence was never in short supply in my case. If anything, I think I overshot the mark with confidence way too early in my career, and gradually, it's about just getting more humble and wanting to sit down more.

Marry someone who flatters you. Because I've written 80 books since 'War Horse' but when my wife reads one, all she says is, 'It's quite good, but it's not as good as 'War Horse,' is it?'

The more people say nice things about me, the more I feel it's false.

There is something to be said about a guy who is attractive and doesn't know it. I hate men who are overconfident.

Flattery is all right so long as you don't inhale.

You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.