Modest Attitude Quotes

My mother gave up her career bringing us up, and she has played a very important role in keeping us grounded. Even now I don't take my work home, my stardom home. It ends where it is supposed to end. There is a life beyond stardom, and it's a very normal life which I cherish. I anyway don't handle attention very well.

I think any actor who talks in beatings-up is just talking himself up. I tend to not bring them up.

I think of myself as pretty chill and down-to-earth.

I expect I shall be a student to the end of my days.

I've never been that confident. I don't tend to think, swaggeringly, 'I'm going to ace this.' It's just not who I am.

I don't walk around like I'm a movie star because I don't think of myself as a movie star. People usually don't even notice me.

I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write.

We've been really lucky. We've gotten a lot of airplay over the years. I guess people keep requesting our songs on the radio, because Lord knows I don't do a whole lot to promote myself.

To suddenly be a hero on a world basis was hard for me to understand. God gave me a gift. I got the chance to use it. I didn't think I deserved what people were saying. My talent is just more visible than theirs.

Oh, I never knew I was going to be a great player.

We do not know anything - this is the first. Therefore, we should be very modest - this is the second. Not to claim that we do know when we do not - this is the third. That's the kind of attitude I'd like to popularize. There is little hope for success.

I'm not set on a pedestal where I think I'm too high and mighty.

I don't think about being a celebrity.

I have a lot to do with the writing, and also the production, but it would be wrong of me to say that I'm the most important member of the band, because everybody is important the way I see it.

I don't know if I even have an aura, man. I just try to win.

I'm a big star in Asia, but I never think about being famous.

I'm not trying to be a big shot or anything like that, but I get my drinks half price.

I'm an actor. And I guess I've done so many movies I've achieved some high visibility. But a star? I guess I still think of myself as kind of a worker ant.

I think 'modesty' is a beautiful word today - and a beautiful attitude.

Humility neither falls far, nor heavily.

There's tons of people doing awesome things with comics online - I'm just one dude!

I grew up on my dad's sets, but I was never star-struck or desperate to be famous. I grew up being a worker. It took me a long time to realise that my work ended up being seen by people. As far as I was concerned, I was just in the family business.

Portia de Rossi is a gorgeous woman, and I found it incredibly refreshing to discover that she puts very little stock in her appearance, instead preferring to concentrate on what goodness she can put into the world around her - a choice we can all learn from.

I was very, very shocked about Cooperstown. I thought my chances were fairly good, but I tried to stay low key about it, not too high and not too low. That was the way I played, too.

I don't think we see ourselves as the savior of the music industry.