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.

- Jonas Armstrong

Opting for gold shoes could have been considered downright cocky, but I was confident and never doubted my ability to deliver gold medals to match my shimmering footwear.

- Michael Johnson

Be cocky. Walk into the Georgia Dome like you own it.

- Mary Lou Retton

It's very dangerous to wave to people you don't know because what if they don't have hands? They'll think you're cocky.

- Mitch Hedberg

I feel like if I had my personality but was an OB/GYN, you would be psyched. You'd be like, 'My chatty, pop-culture-interested but plainspoken, wants-to-talk-about-clothes but serious-minded doctor.' I feel like I would clean up with patients. That's kind of a cocky thing to say.

- Mindy Kaling

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.

- Lorenzo Lamas

I don't want to be one of those kids who gets famous and then changes and becomes cocky. That's why it's so important to me to try and take a photo with every girl who comes to see me.

- Lucky Blue Smith

I've never been a cocky individual, but I am very confident.

- Ludacris

I think people think I'm harder and more arrogant and cocky than I am - because I know how to put on a front, but it's nothing like who I am inside.

- Lisa Marie Presley

The circumstance is the incredible part, but I always knew in my heart that something was going to be out there, just for the world to notice me. It sounds so cocky, but it's happening.

- Kato Kaelin

When my children were young, I was very cocky. I thought I could maintain total control.

- Amy Chua

Everybody is going to love me and this is not being cocky - this is just what I see.

- Jazmine Sullivan

I was probably being a little cocky, which I do when I feel that I don't know what I'm talking about.

- Daniel Okrent

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 a cocky kid.

- Cindy Morgan

I really like guys who have confidence, but not the cocky over-the-top confidence.

- Carly Rae Jepsen

I guess I have a little bit of an ego. I'm confidently cocky, you might say.

- Conor McGregor

I don't want to sound too cocky. But I consider myself superwoman.

- Ciara

I was a little bit of a cocky kid.

- Bill Ackman

I've never been cocky. Even right now I don't like to talk about the Olympics.

- Aly Raisman