Quotes About Ego

I'm not even really attempting to brand myself outside of 'Humans of New York.' I think part of the reason for my success is that I've put my ego aside and said I'm not going to put all of my effort into trying to promote myself. I'm going to try to promote my work and am going to try to promote my project.

I think personality correction is necessary for successful men, like prime ministers, businessmen, politicians... it's essential that one should keep an eye on one's own personality. You must have seen people in politics who become chief ministers and then pass into oblivion - how egotistical they became and how pathetic they look.

If people have to tell you how successful they are, they really aren't that successful.

Just because you have given five successful films doesn't make you God.

I'm the greatest rock and roll drummer on the planet and you suck.

I'm a sucker for a compliment.

In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudden I'm this hunk.

I guess if you're a normal person and all of a sudden you're getting $10 million a year, it can go to your head.

This is really bad to admit but, you know, when you put your name in Google to see how many credits it's got by your name or something. So you put in 'Dolly Wells' and suddenly it goes 'Dolly Wells Feet' or something.

You can be cocky and confident, but when you start developing feelings for someone, suddenly your self-esteem drops a bit.

I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.

We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

The creative act is also in a small way a suffering act - we start out with our ego, this hope of making this thing whatever it be, but so often it eludes us and it collapses and we kind of regress into this mental suffering, we can't find what we're looking for.

Your job as a producer is to make suggestions without putting your ego in front of everything else. Also, I think you want to focus on that artist's best qualities and really highlight them.

The difference between a movie star and a movie actor is this - a movie star will say, 'How can I change the script to suit me?' and a movie actor will say. 'How can I change me to suit the script?'

I don't think Sir Michael Clarke suits me at all, no.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

I've gotten to a place where I'm better at curbing your ego, which usually happens when you're feeling super small and scared about whatever you're seeing, and you want to go read, 'Oh, I hear there's a really good article about me.' I've gotten better about knowing that's not going to end well, usually.

Deep down, I'm pretty superficial.

Being in the spotlight, you know, you tend to kind of forget who you are. And being an artist... it could be a very superficial job. It could be very pretentious as well.

To transcend the ego does not mean, for Rilke, to enter into a spiral of radical self-doubt and philosophical skepticism or to open the floodgates of unconscious desire and irrationality. It means to be swept up by the movement of one's heart (or soul, if you like, or serotonin levels) without ever reaching a state where this movement will lose its purpose and desire by being fulfilled.

All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.

We love flattery, even though we are not deceived by it, because it shows that we are of importance enough to be courted.

It's very different because the Indians live as if they are their souls and Americans live as if they are their egos.