Modesty quotes

“Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty.”
Sir Roger Moore

“My daddy always told me to be like a duck. Stay smooth on the surface and paddle like the devil underneath!”
Kris Kristofferson - Martin 'Rubber Duck' Penwald

“- Eddie Wilson: I want something great! I want something that nobody's ever done before!
- Sal Amato: Why? We ain't great. We're just some guys from Jersey.”
Michael Paré - Eddie Wilson
Matthew Laurance - Sal Amato

“Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do.”
Samuel L. Jackson - Coach Ken Carter

“The only thing I’m not good at is modesty, because I’m great at it.”
Chelsea Peretti - Gina Linetti

“- Cinnamon: I promise I can put a great big smile on each of those nuts.
- Bradley Thomas: No thanks. I don't want anyone to see their braces.”
Keren Dukes - Cinnamon
Vince Vaughn - Bradley Thomas

“- Jerry Mulligan: That's... quite a dress you almost have on.
- Milo Roberts: Thanks.
- Jerry Mulligan: What holds it up?
- Milo Roberts: Modesty.”
Gene Kelly - Jerry Mulligan
Nina Foch - Milo Roberts

“When somebody tells you they're not very smart, they're saying exactly the opposite.”
Tim Allen

“They are doing things on the screen now that I wouldn't do in bed. If I could.”

Bob Hope

“- Stanford Marks: You're the girl with the perfumed poo-poo bags, aren't you?
- Elle Woods: Actually I'm the woman with the scented waste receptacles, but yes.”
Bruce McGill - Stanford Marks
Reese Witherspoon - Elle Woods

“Outraging a lady's modesty, very serious crime in Singapore.”

Kay Siu Lim - Policeman

“- Andrew Paxton: I'm not rich. My parents are rich.
- Margaret Tate: Which is the kind of thing that only a rich person would say.”
Ryan Reynolds - Andrew Paxton
Sandra Bullock - Margaret Tate

“- Bruce Wayne: Alfred's not sick, he's dying.
- Dick Grayson: Dying? Why didn't he tell us?
- Bruce Wayne: You know Alfred, he wouldn't say anything, but I can tell.”
George Clooney - Bruce Wayne
Chris O'Donnell - Dick Grayson

“- Cole Trickle: There's nothing I can't do with a race car.
- Harry Hogge: Well, that's the difference between you and me. There's only so much I can do.”
Tom Cruise - Cole Trickle
Robert Duvall - Harry Hogge

“I'll get you a medal for modesty, Private Williams, would you like that?”
Bob Hoskins - C.S.M. Williams

“- Hillary: A lady should be modest.
- Lara Croft: Yes, a lady should be modest.”
Chris Barrie - Hillary
Angelina Jolie - Lara Croft

“You took off your clothes in his office? I could never do that, you know. Even at home, I take off my clothes in the bathroom and then I jump into bed real quick... which is kinda weird because I live alone.”
Rosie O'Donnell - Sheila

“I hate false modesty. It's just another way to lie.”
Janeane Garofalo - Colette

Calling me “sir” is like putting an elevator in an outhouse. It don't belong.
Sunshine Parker - Emmet

“- Mrs. de Winter: I realize the things that she had that I lack - beauty and wit and intelligence and all the things that are so important.
- Frank Crawley: You have qualities that are just as important, more important if I may say so - kindliness and sincerity, and if you'll forgive me, modesty mean more to a husband than all the wit and beauty...” (continue)(continue reading)

Joan Fontaine - Mrs. de Winter
Reginald Denny - Frank Crawley

“- Juan Seguin: They are gonna want you humble, General.
- Sam Houston: I humble myself before God and there the list ends.”

Jordi Mollà - Juan Seguin
Dennis Quaid - Sam Houston

“- Lincoln Rhyme: I want you to work the case with us.
- Amelia Donaghy: It's not my area.
- Lincoln Rhyme: Are you being modest or are you... a little uneasy about doing some real police work?”
Denzel Washington - Lincoln Rhyme
Angelina Jolie - Amelia Donaghy

“- Frank: You never went skinny-dipping when you were a kid?
- Walter: Yes, but I wore a bathing suit.”

Richard Harris - Frank
Robert Duvall - Walter

“- Gabriel: What about the sex?
- Mark: ...What kind of a girl do you think I am?”
Christian Campbell - Gabriel
John Paul Pitoc - Mark

“There's a tradition in tournament play: not talk about the next step until you've climbed the one in front of you.”
Gene Hackman - Coach Norman Dale