humility Quotes

I am not beautiful. My mother once called me an ugly duckling. But,listed separately, I have a few good features.

I was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing "Funny Face" when I couldn't sing and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then... ...

I have no illusions about my looks. I think my face is funny.

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

Look, whenever I hear or read I’m beautiful, I simply don’t understand it … I’m certainly not beautiful in any conventional way. I didn't make my career on beauty.

I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine.

It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'

I never expected to be a star, never counted on it, never even wanted it. Not that I didn't enjoy it all when it happened.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

It is too much to hope that I shall keep up my success. I don't ask for that. All I shall do is my best- and hope.