If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realize that one is proud. And a biggish step, too. At least, nothing whatever can be done before it. If you think you are not conceited, it means that you are very conceited indeed.
No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be.
If you think you’re enlightened go spend a week with your family.
I've gotten to a place where I'm better at curbing your ego, which usually happens when you're feeling super small and scared about whatever you're seeing, and you want to go read, 'Oh, I hear there's a really good article about me.' I've gotten better about knowing that's not going to end well, usually.
If anyone would like to acquire humility, the first step is to realize one is proud. Nothing can be done before it.
I think my parents did a great job of reminding me that I wasn't as big a deal as maybe I thought I was at times.
If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing.
My ego has been in check for a long time.
The beauty of having your ego checked as many times as my ego was checked in Newark made me recognize how much I needed other people who were very different than me in order to get big things done.
I'm one of seven kids. That'll keep your ego in check.
Anything that confirms for me the transitory nature of reality isn't bad. It's a good lesson in human hubris.
I don't have an ego. I check it at the door.
At times I've got a really big ego. But I'll tell you the best thing about me. I'm some guy's dad; I'm some little gal's dad. When I die, if they say I was Annie's husband and Zachary John and Anna Kate's father, boy, that's enough for me to be remembered by. That's more than enough.
I get recognized just often enough to keep my ego bouncing along, but not so much that I can't go places.
It's always healthy to be taken down a notch, even though it's humbling.
A book tour is, first and foremost, an exercise in humility.
I never asked to be the highest paid player in sports.
It's nice to see arrogance humbled.
On my visits back home, if they saw that I was getting a big head, they'd let me know right away.
I have an amazing group of people around me who are always like, 'Oh, wow, you're doing such amazing things. But don't get a big head,' and I'm like, 'Thanks, man, appreciate it.' It helps, you know?
If you're not humble, life will visit humbleness upon you.
I had people put my feet on the ground for me and say, 'No, you don't know everything, and you need to learn this and this and this,' and it took me time to realize that.
When you go to prison, you don't feel like a superstar. It really humbles you as a person.
When you start thinking you're a big shot, you wash more feet.
I've gone far in the movie business, but no matter how far I go, every time I pick up the phone to call Tom Hanks or Robin Williams, I wonder if they'll call me back. And you know what? Sometimes they do, and sometimes they don't.
