Quotes About Self-importance

It's my world, and the rest of us are living in it.

In a world that belongs to God, human beings make too much of themselves as soon as they raise their heads>; in a world that belongs to humans, they repeatedly make too little of themselves.

I don't know if you guys know this but I'm sort of a big deal.

Most of us hide behind egocentric biases that generate the illusion that we are special.

The people I respect the least are the ones that take themselves way too seriously.

I think I might actually die of showing off. It'll be on my headstone - 'Cause of Death: Showing Off.'

You seem a little challenged in the entitlement department. I mean, compared to the others.

L'America, [...] il paese della libertà, il luogo dei grandi spazi aperti dove un figlio poteva ancora sentirsi speciale. Niente, però, disturba questa sensazione quanto la presenza di altri esseri umani che si sentono altrettanto speciali.

secrecy is a hotbed of vanity

Pride is a dangerous sin. It eats away at our soul. It convinces us that we are better than others,

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

I'm fully aware of people's perception of me, so when I start taking myself too seriously, I have to remember that, to them, I'm just the guy from 'Police Academy.'

When somebody takes themselves seriously that's fodder for comedy. I think every musician goes through certain periods of their career where they're all guilty of that - Spandau Ballet included.

The boaster and the proud person are fools.

Vanity is not like a horse or an elephant requiring expensive fodder.

Vanity', he said, 'is the curse of our culture; or perhaps it is simply my own persistent refusal', he said, 'to believe that artists are also human beings.

The only vowel I'm concerned with is 'I.'

When people are self-entitled for no reason, just with anything, that bothers me. It's like waiting for someone to cross the road, and they walk slower because they know you're waiting. I like all the credit due in the places that it's supposed to be due.

Who walks around proud of things they've done? That's an obnoxious quality.

I was the National Juco Player of the Year, so I thought I was a big shot.

When I was playing Bishop, I would always walk on set thinking, 'This is my show; this is a show all about me.'

Like, if you don't want to talk to me it's your loss, and basically I'm a big deal so you should be bloody lucky to be talking to me.

There are a lot of people very sure of themselves that need to be brought back down to Earth. As good as they think they are, they're really not.

I had a bit of a lazy streak to me, I had high opinions of myself without any real grounding reason to, I made a bit of television that did ok, and all of a sudden life was pretty relaxed for me.