If you look at my job, my union card, it says ‚actor.‘ It don’t say nothing about celebrity, movie star, nothing like that, and that’s one thing that keeps me humble.

I don’t consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

One thing I hope I’ll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

Actor’s life is very long.

There’s no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don’t try to adapt it, make it commercial.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

I do not see myself as a celebrity or an icon or things like that… I have not really done anything.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

I don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

I’m a pretty good winner. I’m a terrible loser. And I rub it in pretty good when I win.

If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

I believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity work and build orphanages. There’s the teaching that we’re supposed to be poor to show that we’re humble. I don’t buy that. I think we’re supposed to be leaders. We’re supposed to excel.

What I’ve learned is that you really don’t need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.

Humility may well be one of the most difficult of the fruit of the Spirit to be cultivated in us – and to maintain. That’s because without humility, it’s not likely that you will put your complete trust in God.

Movies were invented for Jimmy Cagney, and he was invented for the movies. A perfect match.

I’ve never had that much trouble with the paparazzi, but I don’t run the same circles that a lot of these people that do get hounded by the paparazzi.

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn’t do to upset one’s own vanity.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Fondly we think we honor merit then, When we but praise ourselves in other men.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

I’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

There’s a belief that you’re supposed to be poor, and suffering, and show your humility. I just don’t see the Bible that way. I see that God came and Jesus died so that we might live an abundant life and be a blessing to others.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: ‚Yes, you’re doing the right thing, you’re always right.‘ No, they tell me when I’m wrong, and that’s why I’ve been able to stay who I am and stay humble.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

When I was with Andy Warhol, I thought, ‚God, his wig looks cheaper than mine!‘

Oh yes. I’m an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.

I’m a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.

There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day.

You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

There was my name up in lights. I said, ‚God, somebody’s made a mistake.‘ But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, ‚Remember, you’re not a star.‘ Yet there it was up in lights.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.

A conductor can’t be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.

I have an immense amount of respect for acting. I’ve always loved movies and was always fascinated by movie-making. But to become an actor, I wanted to commit myself.

It took Simone a long time to understand why people want Daddy’s autograph. I’d tell her, and my wife would tell her, too, ‚People see Daddy in the movies, and they are excited to meet him.‘ But she couldn’t really grasp it.

I want to try something different in Hollywood, to tell the audience I am not just an actor star – I am an actor, too.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.

Anybody that doesn’t like Cardi B a hater!

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.

I was just a young guy who was excited to become a comedian and an actor and I just wanted to get to do what I got to do.

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed.

I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.