Like any other actor, I want to work with good directors, and I always look for good scripts. I’ve had to say no to some people; I suspect that’s the reason I’m called arrogant.
I tend to be more arrogant on stage. Far more ignorant. I sometimes say what I think and sometimes say the opposite of what I think and the lines get blurred, but I can only hope that some kind of absolute power transcends.
I am, of course, directly descended from Brian Boru, the last king of Ireland, a fact certified by my mother and therefore beyond dispute. But as everybody else with a drop of Irish blood in his carcass is also a guaranteed descendant of the old billy goat, I am not overly arrogant because of this royal strain.
There are players who are arrogant, and players who probably need more self-confidence. But if you get the balance right, you can get the best out of yourself.
It would seem staggeringly arrogant to think we were the only ones in the universe, but at the same time, I don’t know if contact has been made yet or not because you think something like that would be hard to cover up. I’m still on the fence. I keep an open mind about all of these things.
People who act the most arrogant often are the most insecure, and they just can’t even begin to accept the possibility that they might not be as good as they think they are.
A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people’s lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.
It is extremely arrogant and very foolish to think that you can ever outwit your audience.
A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.
I met a lot of hackers, and some of them were very arrogant. They thought I was stupid because I couldn’t follow what they were talking about. But then I met this great guy whom companies hire to find their security holes, and he was very good about explaining so I could understand.
I feel like I write songs for the future or something. Not in an arrogant way, but I feel like maybe my songs were, like, before their time or something.
I would really love to work with Paul McCartney. Isn’t that arrogant?
My story was that I was egotistical, arrogant, and an absolute jerk to everyone who brags about everything – and I will – but I’ve been very fortunate to take everything and learn from it.
If you request for a little time to fulfill a commitment, you’re accused of being arrogant. I repeat, I’ve achieved nothing to be arrogant about.
A lot of people are seeing me as an arrogant, confident kid. It doesn’t worry me.
A conductor can’t be too arrogant with an orchestra and try to impose himself too much.
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
People say I’m arrogant or cocky. You know what it is? I feel that I have a good chance to win ball games.
Americans, apparently, either do nothing about the world’s problems, in which case they are ignorant and isolationist, selfish and gutless, or they try to do something about the world’s problems, in which case they are arrogant and naive, greedy and bullying.
I’ve always been the same since I was a kid, maybe it was the way I was brought up, but I’ve never liked arrogant people.
I shouldn’t say it, but I found that the French can be the most arrogant people in the world if they want to be.
Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one.
To me, spending millions of dollars recreating the world’s sadness with actors and props and sets – it seems like a kind of arrogant waste of money… Unless, that is, it’s a film about an historical event.
I was a solipsist and a narcissist and much too arrogant. I have a lot more compassion now, but it took a long time.
I like having conversations: you learn a lot about how other people think. If I’m myself and confident, I don’t get nervous easily. I try not to make other people uncomfortable – I think that’s a very arrogant thing to do.
I never went to university. I’m self-educated. I didn’t go because I was too impatient, too arrogant.
Often times, the more power and prestige a person achieves, the more arrogant a person can become.
Whenever I start feeling too arrogant about myself, I always take a trip to the U.S. The immigration guys kick the star out of my stardom.
I guess I’m reasonably confident in all honesty. But I definitely don’t think I’m arrogant. I’m pretty down to earth, I mean I’m genuinely down to earth.
Sydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it hard to relate to. It’s not a place that’s built to be rainy or cold. But when the sun comes out, it bats its eyelids, it’s glamorous, beautiful, attractive, smart, and it’s very hard to get away from its magnetic pull.
If I’m too cocky or too arrogant, it’s like, ‘Ugh.’ But if you’re too on the other side, you take away some of those other emotional aspects, and I just kinda like to have a balance.
It sounds a little bit too arrogant, but I think I certainly have a working model for how I conduct my life, and it may or may not be a correct worldview.
People are usually scared of me because of the arrogant character I play. They stare at me with fear that I might just scold them and often run away from me.
I don’t mind rude people. I want people that I can make money with, so if their executional abilities are good, and they’re arrogant and rude, I don’t care.
Not to sound arrogant but I’ve worked with everyone I’ve always wanted to work with.
My parents found this paper from my high school theater class where you had to write down what you wanted in a significant other. At the bottom, it said, ‘No athletes, because they’re arrogant.’
I say that I’ve never been late with a manuscript, but I don’t mean to be arrogant; it’s that I simply want to get it done as soon as possible so I can be set free.
I never want to become arrogant and think I’ve made a flawless movie.
I’m not arrogant enough to look back on my career and criticize my choices. It’s really not my place.
I don’t interact with people much. So some people find me arrogant but some find me very sweet.
Sometimes I may be totally arrogant, sometimes I may totally be the most humble guy you’ve ever met, sometimes I may be in between. But that’s life. Who isn’t like that? What’s the big deal if I had an arrogant moment.
Selfish, arrogant people drive me crazy.
I’ve always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we’re the only life form in the galaxy.
Negroes’ problem is that they do not have their egos. That’s why our churches end up having a white service, because our preacher is not arrogant enough to take God’s word, so he have to go and get some white fellow’s agenda and put it in his church.
I was a philosophy major as an undergraduate, and I’m just an arrogant little thing. It’s hard for me to admit that I can’t understand something, let alone not be in charge of it.
The routines of any ethnic comic – Eddie Murphy or George Lopez, for example – would not work if they were performed by anybody outside the group. The same routines would become arrogant and racist.
I like women who have their own idea of life: the woman who is assured, comfortable with herself, strong inside, proud of herself – not in an arrogant way, not showing off.
I was taught to be respectful and humble as a boy, and especially not arrogant.
I believe in my race, colour. I never felt inferior to anyone. Maybe that’s why the folks who made me feel that way, may think Vivian Richards is the most arrogant guy on earth, but no. I bat for human beings, equal rights.
How arrogant – how very far from humility – would be the self-satisfied, smug assurance that God, a tidy-up-after-us God will come and clean up our mess? Hope for a nanny God, who will with a miracle grant us amnesty from our folly – that’s not aligned with either history or the text of the Bible.
Trump represented a movement of dissatisfaction, the dissent, unhappiness, division cultivated by years of identity politics and the bullying of arrogant, insufferable, intolerant social justice warriors who used the last two terms to punish anyone who reminded them of Daddy.
People think I am arrogant, I don’t think so. I cannot be arrogant at all… I am basically a lower middle class person by heart.
Money changes people. It all seemed too big and arrogant to me I didn’t feel like a member of the group. Everybody was fighting.
I was very worried about whether I could do it or not. I mean, how arrogant – here I am in my 20s trying to write from the point of view of a woman in her 80s.
I’ve always been very honest about what’s good and bad in my writing. That honesty might have made me sound arrogant sometimes, when I was talking about work I thought was good.
The arrogant view that young people don’t count because they don’t vote has thankfully been smashed for ever.
