Quotes About Modesty

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.

I'm a big fan of a slit on a dress, so it's always worth having a little look in the mirror just before you go out to see where your limits are and just how far you can pull the leg out if you're posing.

College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.

I like very minimal stuff. I'm a tomboy at heart - and in body!

Because I'm such a tomboy, I hate showing off my body.

Atticus Finch is, you know, he was just his whole - the business of his modesty and his ability to see tomorrow and to try to buttress his knowledge of what was coming for his kids was something that I'll never - as a father I'm not able to do.

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.

People ask, 'Should I call you Sir Hopkins?' But I say, 'No. Call me Tony,' because it's too much of a lift-up.

I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones.

I don't really like attention too much.

You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.

It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.

I don't really like talking about myself too much.

I actually don't like boxers who talk too much.

I don't like my ego stroked too much.

I don't really like too much credit. I know nobody's going to believe this, but I'd rather be able to score goals and nobody saw or even spoke about it. That would be just about the perfect world for me.

This is why it's hard to talk about winning awards. You can't do it without sounding like a tool.

I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed.

Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be.

I would never pose topless.

I try not to be topless any more because I don't want that to be my thing.

I don't really want to do topless stuff anymore.

I don't regret being topless in certain things, but there were some things in 'EastEnders' where there was no reason for me to be topless.

I don't want to take off my shirt and roam topless all the time, just for the heck of it.