Quotes About Ego

It was easy for me to play someone with a massive ego. It's actually really fun to have the freedom to be that person.

I don't feel like material things validate me in any way.

I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.

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

Robert Morley is a legend in his own lunchtime.

There's ego in all of us rugby players.

I've totally sacrificed my ego. And what happens? God is giving me everything.

A lot of actors think that what we do is so important, like we're saving people's lives or something.

Everybody wants to be me. What can I say?

I think it comes with making all the big plays and scoring all these touchdowns. It brings a lot of attention on yourself.

Ain't nobody more famous than me. I am my own hero and everything else. If you are a SEAL you can say that.

I could take Sean Connery in a fight... I could definitely take him.

The music became secondary to being rock stars.

The ego is not master in its own house.

My own saying is: 'Create the hype, but don't ever believe it.'

I would take one of 15 half-million-dollar cars I owned and go to the mall and spend that much money. Stupid, stupid stuff. It's like it didn't make a difference. They were ego investments. I would have been great with three or four cars. I didn't need a 117-foot boat.

The most successful entrepreneurs tell you they have a great team. Lots of small-business owners let ego get in the way. Many people helped me along the way. You've got to remember the people who were loyal to you, and don't forget them when you become successful.

Who is most deserving of all of the money that I, Zlatan, am paid? The answer is Zlatan.

Personality-wise, I like to avoid putting my pride on parade.

There's some jerks. There's some big egos. There are a few that think they're one of the Founding Fathers... in both parties.

A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

Soon the child's clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions, and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of the ego. Not until years later does an instinct come that a vital sense of mystery has been withdrawn. The sun glints through the pines and the heart is pierced in a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a memory of paradise. After that day, we become seekers.

Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you do is for yourself—and there isn't one. —Wei Wu Wei