Cocky Quotes - page 3

I don't commit to things unless I have my A-team to do it. And I'm not trying to be cocky, but that shows in my productions. They are top notch! (Cameron Mackintosh)
I was probably being a little cocky, which I do when I feel that I don't know what I'm talking about. View quote
Daniel Okrent
I skipped kindergarten because I was reading at a pretty high level. That's a weird and cocky thing to say, but I was real sharp, and I knew that early on. View quote
Hannibal Buress
There's nothing wrong with giving yourself a pat on the back. If you can't do that, you can't be objective about your work. You can't be conceited or cocky either, but you can't be too modest either. View quote
Jack Reynor
I'm always polite in auditions, but I wasn't like, 'Oh, please give me the job,' for 'Robin Hood' because I didn't think I'd get it. I got told about the audition just a few days before I went to India to film something else. I must have been a bit cocky with it. View quote
Jonas Armstrong
I'm not too secure about my looks. They can always change. I was heavy and overweight as a teenager, so it's hard to be cocky or egotistical. View quote
Lorenzo Lamas
I was cocky and arrogant when I was younger. I thought that if I delivered a good performance, and put my best foot forward, that would be enough to get people's attention. So in my naivety, I cut my legs off at the knees, because I didn't realize that oftentimes it doesn't matter about the performance... it's the media that creates stars. View quote
Bokeem Woodbine
I was a cocky kid. View quote
Cindy Morgan
I've spent enough time with soldiers to know that once they get to know you and they loosen up and become themselves, they are some of the biggest hams and most charismatic, cocky, fun, humorous guys I've ever met. View quote
Peter Berg
I enjoyed hitting in the Major Leagues more than in the Minor Leagues. I didn't want to tell anybody it was easier, because I didn't want to sound cocky. But Major League pitchers had better control, and most of them were around the plate. View quote
Willie McCovey
If you have the choice between humble and cocky, go with cocky. There's always time to be humble later, once you've been proven horrendously, irrevocably wrong. (Kinky Friedman)
At 20, you're cocky and you think you can rule the world, and you get it all wrong. View quote
Simon Cowell
The atheism and nihilism of my earlier years now seems shallow, and even a bit cocky. View quote
Anne Rice
I've never been a cocky individual, but I am very confident. View quote
Ludacris
I got moxie, I'm so damn cocky Industry tried to block me like cops and paparazzi. View quote
Lauryn Hill
I've never been a conceited person or cocky, never felt boastful, but I always had a sense of self-worth; I always had a real sense of myself. View quote
Will Ferrell
People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future's going or not realize that moviemaking is the greatest thing to happen to me. View quote
Dale Carnegie
Sometimes I wave to people I don't know. It's very dangerous to wave to someone you don't know, because what if they don't have a hand They'll think you're cocky. 'Look what I got... This thing is useful. I'm gonna go pick somethin' up.' View quote
Mitch Hedberg
They wouldn't be so cocky if they knew what me and thehave going. View quote
Ken Kesey
I just told him to run the bases and don't try to be cocky. View quote
Carlos Zambrano
Ignorance and arrogance are the artist's and entrepreneur's indispensable allies. She must be clueless enough to have no idea how difficult her enterprise is going to be and cocky enough to believe she can pull it off anyway." (Steven Pressfield)
It's an amazing thing to say, 'I'm beautiful,' without feeling like you're cocky. View quote
Christina Aguilera
Ninety-nine percent is in the delivery. If you have the right voice and the right delivery, you're cocky enough, and you pound down on the punch line, you can say anything and make people laugh maybe three times before they realize you're not telling jokes. View quote
Buddy Hackett
...the turns of the screw that Sophocles administered throughout the play [Oedipus Tyrannos] must have been received with sharp pain... because these cocky, princely, Oedipal Greeks were being made to feel acutely the limitations of human society-in which no political leader, no matter how gifted or courageous, can remain a savior forever, in which every man must come to know that he is no hero but essentially a flawed and luckless figure and that "the pains we inflict upon ourselves hurt most of all." View quote
Thomas Cahill
He's a cocky sumbitch. That's what makes him such a great player. View quote
Lawrence Taylor