I'm pretty easy going, I think.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
I'm actually pretty reserved.
I never wished that I was a superstar. Hell, I never even wished that I was an actress.
... a modest man. He has every reason to be modest.
Clement Attlee, Lord Privy Seal and later the Socialist Prime Minister, was:
I'm one of those people who would be OK with fading back into the background a little bit.
I'm not unattractive, but I'm not a matinee idol. I think I have a very non-threatening look - I'm fine, I'm right in the middle.
It is a great piece of folly to attempt to make anything out of me or my early life. It can all be condensed into a single sentence, and that sentence you will find in Gray's Elegy : "The short and simple annals of the poor." That's my life, and that's all you or anyone can make out of it.
in a Country Grave Yard
I guess I've always had a - not really thought of myself as this big star, big identity in the game.
I'm very quiet and shy in my personal life, as hard as that is to believe.
If you are small and don't particularly want credit for what you are doing, you can achieve a lot.
I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.
I've always been a super regular guy.
Those who know me know I'm not a person who has a flashy lifestyle.
Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.
I've always been a reserved cat. When I play sports, there's people used to get mad at me because I didn't hang out and things like that. I've never been that kind of person. Nothing has changed in that regard. I've never been posse, and all that. I'm a quiet storm.
I'm not really that nerdy.
Creating without claiming, Doing without taking credit, Guiding without interfering, This is Primal Virtue.
If I meet two guys at the same time and one of them is coming on really strong and talking a lot, and the other is more quiet and reserved, I'm going to like the second one. I want someone who isn't going to give it away in the first meeting.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a quiet guy.
I don't think of myself as an American Master. I've just been making a living.
Far from a Harvard student, just had the balls to do it
I never aspired to be anything. What I've done is beyond my wildest.
Whenever I'm around some who is modest, I think, 'Run like hell and all of fire.' You don't want modesty, you want humility.
I enjoy playing football, and that's about it. I'm no-one special.