Quotes About Humility

I love hearing people who are smarter than me talk about my comics. It makes me feel smarter.

I am not sure that I am that smart. I think we work harder. When I was at university, there were a lot of smarter people than me, and they seem not to have done quite so well.

At any given moment, I've always assumed that nearly everyone around me was smarter than I was, more naturally gifted, quicker-witted, and probably capable of understanding Heidegger and Derrida.

Scholastically, I did enough to get by, but I was smarter than I let on.

I know I'm not smarter than a 10-year-old.

I don't bite the hand that feeds me. I'm a little smarter than that.

You have to be as smart as you can be, not smarter. You don't need to be smarter than you are.

I said I was 'The Greatest,' I never said I was the smartest!

If I'm the smartest guy in the room, I'm in the wrong room.

I was never the smartest guy in the room. From the first person I hired, I was never the smartest guy in the room. And that's a big deal. And if you're going to be a leader - if you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems.

You don't have to always be the smartest person in the room, but if you listen and absorb what you are hearing, you will be ahead of the game.

I never want to be the most experienced or the smartest person in the room.

I don't take myself too seriously. I never think I'm the smartest person in the room.

Another person who's smarter than I. What a relief to not have to be the smartest guy anymore.

When I was wrong about the 2002 elections, I dumped a garbage can on my head. When my John Kerry prediction didn't pan out in 2004, I smashed an egg on my face.

I hunt and fish, and I don't fly on Lear jets, and I don't smoke Cuban cigars.

Hoopsters always look smooth. I'm definitely not smooth! I'm definitely not up there with those guys.

I can't be smug, because I know that you can lose anything at any point. And I can't be angry, because I haven't lost it.

I never feel like a smug or a smart-alec film director, and there are plenty of those around.

I'm still stupid. I still do what I'm not supposed to do. Are you serious? I'm Jake 'The Snake,' man. I never claimed to be the sharpest knife in the drawer.

If you snap off people's heads and get on to a kind of a pedestal, it's more difficult for people to approach you. It's much easier if you are down there with them. They will talk to you.

At 'SNL,' we don't have the luxury to perfect things. However a video turns out, that's what we have to present. There's a number of things that I'm super embarrassed by and wish didn't air.

I know that I'm definitely not a big big snob, and I know that at the times that I am a diva I know I'm being a diva. It's kind of annoying to know that you are. Because it's a person I do not want to be. So I'm trying my best not to become a jerk.

There's no snobbery in me.