Quotes About Modesty

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

I don't go around thinking I'm Ray Bradbury all the time.

My reaction when I hear the word 'celebrity' is, 'Who, me?' It doesn't feel like I'm famous.

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.

The point came when people were doing things I didn't feel competent to do myself. I'm not being modest; I honestly get lost. I was lucky in spotting what I did when I did, but there comes a point where you realise what you're doing is not going to be much good.

I don't think I ever really thought I was good-looking.

I've never thought of myself as a good-looking guy, necessarily.

I believe firmly that it was the Almighty's goodness, to check my consummate vanity.

I go out of my way to help people, but I don't tell people. Goodness is not about beating your own drum.

God, I don't think of myself as gorgeous at all!

I gotta tell you, my nature is not to be the center of attention.

I'm not God's gift to rockabilly. There's great players out there, and some of them deserve a lot more than they've gotten.

I have not changed much. I haven't gotten a big ego or anything.

I don't make big grand gestures, generally.

Let's just not sort of rub grandeur in people's faces.

I guess I don't have a grandiose view of the world in general, and I never believe it when someone else has a grandiose moment.

I don't want to take fame for granted because that is when you start to think you are better than everyone else. That is when you start thinking that you are someone that you are not.

You can never say you're big - I don't think you can ever take anything like that for granted.

I would never condone anything which I thought was salacious, titillating, or gratuitous.

I'm so down to earth, I'm bringing gravity back.

I don't claim any great experience or expertise.

I think my dad's done a great job of letting others have their turn when his term was over and not being out there grandstanding and trying to say, 'Well, this is what I think, and I need to get the news and be on the news and' - he's not like that.

I don't think I am a great man.

I don't think you have to be flamboyant to be a great player.