Show-off Quotes

I was a bit of a show-off in school and loved playing dress-up, and my passion for it just grew as I got older. (Jai Courtney)
Vorpal had the trick of adding a Malay enclitic to his utterances. This also had power to irritate, especially in the mornings. It irritated Nabby Adams that this should irritate him, but somewhere at the back of his brain was the contempt of the man learned in languages for the silly show-off, jingling the small change of ‘wallah' and charpoy... View quote
Anthony Burgess
I valued my independence from an early age and was always something of a individualist ... Well, a show-off anyway. View quote
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
The main problem for the average reader -- particularly of The Great Beast -- is that Crowley seems such an intolerable show-off that it is hard to believe anything he says. View quote
Colin Wilson
Well, my whole thing is that I'm kind of like a show-off! View quote
Anna Sui
I think, to be a successful author, you've got to be part recluse and part show-off. View quote
Morris Gleitzman
Don't you understand how dramatic it is to be a comic? To be a fool, to get people to laugh at this show-off? Milton Berle could take Laurence Olivier and stick him under the table if he wanted to. And so could I. View quote
Jerry Lewis
Anyone who goes on the stage is a show-off, aren't they? Acting's weird. View quote
Celia Imrie
I'm not a show-off; I'm not an exhibitionist. View quote
Kelly Reilly
I was a show-off as a kid. I was wearing bow ties and matching coloured trousers. View quote
Mika
No one likes a show-off, but if parallel parking was an Olympic sport, I would get gold, no probs. (Miranda Hart)
By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards - new architecture, design and show-off contemporary art. The Sloane domestic aesthetic - symmetry, class symbolism and brown furniture - became as unfashionable as it had been hot in the early Eighties. View quote
Peter York
As a kid I would be put to bed when my parents had guests and because I was such a show-off I would go to my mum's room, put on her nightdress and Jackie Onassis shawl, run downstairs, go outside, ring the doorbell and pretend to be one of the guests. I'd say, 'Hello, I'm Mrs. So-and-So. View quote
Rupert Everett
I am thinking of the onion again.... Not self-righteous like the proletarian potato, nor a siren like the apple. No show-off like the banana. But a modest, self-effacing vegetable, questioning, introspective, peeling itself away, or merely radiating halos like ripples. View quote
Erica Jong
Fox News' Megyn Kelly has fast succumbed to the female instinct to show-off, bare skin, flirt and wink. She now also regularly motormouths it over the occasional smart guest she entertains (correction: the one smart guest, Ann Coulter). At the same time, Kelly has dignified the tinnitus named Dana Perino with a daily slot as Delphic-oracle. View quote
Ilana Mercer