Quotes About Modest

By nature, I am a low-key person and like being behind the camera.

That was a heroic deed." Embarrassed, Eragon scuffed his boots against the ground. "I wouldn't have survived if not for Arya." "You are too modest, Argetlam," she admonished. "It was you who struck the final blow.

I shared in the boom. I was energetic in my own modest way. But I was also restless. You so quickly get used to peace. It is like being well – you take it for granted, and forget that when you were ill to be well again had seemed everything. And with peace and the boom I began to see the town as ordinary, for the first time.

Cultivate simplicity ... or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart, and carries into daylight with it its own modest buds, and genuine, sweet, and clear flowers of expression.

small? That seems manageable.

I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.

I'm understated in my approach.

I was very uneasy about going into cosmology because the experimental observations were so modest.

And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession.

I'm not driven by the spotlight and I'm not that outgoing.

I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.

I'm the nicest kid. I'm not a big head.

I almost envied him the possession of this modest and clear flame.

I want a simple, ordinary life. "It's as simple as that.

I'm interested in making films of all sizes. During this time I've made a film called 'The Boy in the Striped Pajamas', which is a modest-sized film. I was involved in 'I Am Legend' and 'Yes, Man', but 'Potter' is unique. There'll never be anything like 'Potter' again.

The Wellcome Foundation offered me the chance to establish a small academic research unit, modestly funded, but with total independence. The real opportunity, however, came from King's College, London.

I was mild-mannered, wore glasses, was very shy with women.

Ach, I've never been one for big declarations or releasing statements.

I've got a very behind-the-scenes personality. I don't know how I became a performer. I like to stay discreet, out of the public eye, very low-key.

I was more shy, staying in the background.

When immigration proceeds at a steady but modest clip, deep change comes slowly, and there's time for assimilation to do its work.

The kids who take up athletics actually come from modest to poor backgrounds. They make it on their own steam; some of them don't even have the basic means like shoes and enough food to eat.

He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.

I'm a very humble guy. I don't go around and stick my nose in the air.