Tom Goodman-Hill Quotes

I never wanted to be 'the big I-Am.'

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

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

Any time you talk about your own stuff you sound self-aggrandising.

A lot of self-importance goes on in the fashion industry. I'm not like that.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

On occasions I have been big-headed. I think most people are when they get in the limelight. I call myself Big Head just to remind myself not to be.

I have no business carrying myself like some diva.

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

Mastery passes often for egotism.

Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.

I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.

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.

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

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.

I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.

I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.

If I was sharp in every area, I might be too big-headed or something.

I'm kind of concerned about 'Ego & Hubris' because I'm thinking that people will read it and maybe even be entertained by it, but at the end of it, you know, they'll wonder, 'Why did this guy write this? What was the point of it?'

I don't want to take fame for granted because that is when you start to think you are better than everyone else. That is when you start thinking that you are someone that you are not.

I would warn my brethren and sisters to never flatter persons because of their ability; for they cannot bear it. Self is easily exalted, and in consequence, persons lose their balance.

I'm not great enough to be humble.

I am not the humblest person in the world. I admit that.

One must be arrogant, indeed, to imagine that one can take everything in one's hand and know everything!