Quotes About Self-importance

Never think you're too good for a role, and never take yourself too seriously.

The most important thing I learned from Dad about show business was never take myself seriously and never stop having fun with my craft.

The trouble with my generation is that we all think we're fucking geniuses. Making something isn't good enough for us, and neither is selling something, or teaching something, or even just doing something; we have to be something. It's our inalienable right, as citizens of the twenty-first century. If Christina Aguilera or Britney or some American Idol jerk can be something, then why can't I? Where's mine, huh?

Benim kuÅŸa??m?n sorunu ÅŸu: Hepimiz kendimizi birer dahi san?yoruz. Elimizle bir iÅŸ yapmak ya da bir ÅŸeyler satmak bizi tatmin etmiyor, biz ille de bir ÅŸeyler olmak istiyoruz. 21. Yüzy?lda yaÅŸayan insanlar olarak bunun en doÄŸal hakk?m?z olduÄŸunu düÅŸünüyoruz. EÄŸer Christina Aguilera, Britney ya da daha bilmem kaç tane boÅŸ kafal? AmerÅŸkan pop y?ld?z? bir ÅŸey olabiliyorsa, biz niye olmayal?m?

There is one thing Margaret Thatcher said that I agree with: if you have to tell people you're important, you're not.

French intellectual life has, in my opinion, been turned into something cheap and meretricious by the 'star' system. It is like Hollywood. Thus we go from one absurdity to another - Stalinism, existentialism. Lacan, Derrida - some of them obscene ( Stalinism), some simply infantile and ridiculous ( Lacan, Derrida). What is striking, however, is the pomposity and self-importance, at each stage.

There was no monster so fierce or so vulnerable as a man's ego.

Just each of us being me, me, me first. The murderer, the victim, the witness each of us thinks our role is the lead. Probably that goes for anybody in the world.

Everybody here thinks the whole story is about them. Definitely that goes for everybody in the world.

Man is the only animal that when you pat him on the head, his head swells up.

You need to see everything else—everyone else—as expendable, as less than yourself.

At Yale, when he was young and headstrong, he'd been sure that one day he'd be the very axis of the world, that his life would be one of deep impact. But every young man thought that. A condition of youth, your own importance. The mark you'd make upon the world. But a man learns sooner or later. You take your little nice and you make it your own.

He was seething, drunk on his own magnificence

Anyone who is as good-looking as Jace is usually completely out of touch with reality. It's like they think their looks give them the right to just go around saying whatever they want to say, and doing whatever they want to do. As if the fact that they're six foot two and broad-shouldered with dark hair and gorgeous deep-blue eyes gives them the right to get away with anything.

The more conceited members of the race think in terms of an endless ascent—or promotion ad infinitum. I would point out that, sooner or later, man must reach his level of life-incompetence.

The pride blurs us the eye.It is our alcohol. (L'orgueil nous brouille l'oeil. Il est notre alcool)

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

When he has nothing else to do, he can always contemplate his own greatness. It is a considerable advantage to a man, to have so inexhaustible a subject.

Every man thinks his own geese swans.

Sir Leicester is generally in a complacent state, and rarely bored. When he has nothing else to do, he can always contemplate his own greatness. It is a considerable advantage to a man to have so inexhaustible a subject.

It is a dangerous thing to see anything in the sphere of a vain blusterer, before the vain blusterer sees it himself.

I will not say that everything was utterly commonplace, becuase I doubt if anything can be that, except to utterly commonplace people - and there my vanity steps in...

Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.

Swallow your pride occasionally, it's non-fattening!