Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.
“I'm sure people in the business have said: She's too old for that part. I don't hear about it because your agent protects you from those negative things.”
“The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.”