Quotes About Humility

I just see myself as just an ordinary chick from Florida, not some beautiful woman.

I'm not Meryl Streep. My God - she's the greatest actor that ever lived. It's sad that ordinary actors like me are compared to her.

Although I was born to famous parents, I know and feel the problems of ordinary citizens.

Well, honestly I feel like an ordinary woman.

I'm not claiming to be anything out of the ordinary. I am not especially big or strong or brave or intrepid.

You may be modest and un-egotistical in your life; I'm quite ordinary. But I play big egotistical parts.

I am a simple, ordinary mother.

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

I am an ordinary man.

I am just an ordinary man.

The work of the Lord is done by ordinary people who work in an extraordinary way.

I'm really just an ordinary person.

I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.

I consider myself an ordinary person.

I am not a hero, O.K.? I am not a hero. I am a very ordinary person.

I'm not that big a celebrity. I'm just an ordinary person.

Corky is an ordinary person who does extraordinary things. He is a true inspiration, but he doesn't know that he's an inspiration.

I appreciate the idea that anybody would think of me as a star. But I'm really not career oriented in the sense that I want to be a star. It's not in me. It's not what I do. In fact, I'm amazed that I've even gotten this far.

I come from very humble origins, so the last thing I would ever do is to look down my nose at people who can't afford to come here to my shop.

I have a box of awards in the closet. I think it is weird to put them out. I might if I had an Emmy or Oscar, but I don't.

I've learned to not have expectations. I think the first movie I did, I was like, 'Oh my God, I'm going to win an Oscar!' You can't do that, you're going to let yourself down.

I did not bring up my child to think that she was a star. If I had treated her any differently, it would have messed everything up. She was brought up normally, like other kids, in a normal house, and it was a normal, middle-class life.

You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that's fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others.

Humility, I have learned, must never be confused with meekness. Humility is being open to the ideas of others.