Quotes About Self-effacing

I'm the most humblest guy you can ever talk to or meet.

Her temperament has never been competitive; she immediately wants to disappear, to obliterate herself, to make way for them.

In many ways, I've chosen to be plain, almost too plain, too self-effacing. Like, if I record a vocal and I don't like the way it sounds, I would have them turn it up and take the reverb off it to make it as plain as possible.

I'm not the 'look at me' kind of a person. I do not like showing off in public or written about.

You know when actors are very shy and self-effacing? Well, I really love it when people like my work, but I'm also really embarrassed about it. It's strange. And a bit pathetic really.

I'm not boisterous. I just let the work speak for itself.

Some people, under a nervous and self-effacing manner, conceal a great deal of vanity and self-satisfaction.

If you want to make idols accessible - which I think Shakespeare should be - then you have to bring a human touch, make it self-effacing and warm.

I don't like being the center of attention.

My father always shied away from attention. Whenever he'd get a compliment, he'd downplay it.

What I see as specially English is the charm - everyone is so polite. Being restrained is part of the charm. And I love the sense of humour - it takes me back to Australia. The English are great at making fun of themselves. They're so self-effacing.

I'm not good at talking about myself.

It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor.

I don't know how to explain how, probably to my detriment, unselfpromoting I am. I used to have a cabaret act and I didn't even like to tell me people about that. I really hate selling myself.

I don't like to praise myself - that I am the quickest, that I am the strongest, that I am the most technical guy - I never do that.

For all his silences, the man was about as self-effacing as a neutron star; light itself seemed to bend around him.

I think growing up in Indiana prepares anyone for a life in comedy. I do feel like there is a certain kind of self-effacing cynicism among all Hoosiers.

self-effacing introvert. How do they get along? Terribly. They

In regards to being a fashion aficionado, there's a certain amount of taking yourself seriously in the professional world. The self-effacing person can't completely go down the serious road. But I design, and love when things are beautiful.

You just have to stay humble.

I never really do anything show-off-y, I keep it humble.

I'm probably one of the must humble people you'll ever meet.

I'm very humble.

I'm always very humble.