Quotes About Ego

I don't want to be in a locker room with someone that we draft that's kind of a prima donna or, you know, thinks they're bigger than the team. Those are two things that I don't do well with.

My old boss, former British prime minister David Cameron, thought Obama was one of the most narcissistic, self-absorbed people he'd ever dealt with.

I used to be so excited when I saw my name in print.

Anybody who's ever had the privilege of seeing me play knows that I am the greatest pitcher in the world.

I'm a pro. I understand you check your ego at the door. If you don't have it that night, you don't have it that night. But sometimes you're like, 'Give me that opportunity to grind through this'.

It's normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self's agenda.

You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise.

The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.

If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work.

It's a business you go into because you're an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

I think I probably got a lot of my father's natural security or ego or whatever. I can be my own person and not have to live under his shadow. I definitely look up to him in many ways - I'd like to be more like him when it comes to business - but I think I'm such a different person, it's hard to even compare us.

I will take a back seat when I know my fame is dipping. I'm not delusional.

My real passion is to make movies, to direct. It's good for my ego to be an actress. It's like someone is saying, 'Yes, you're beautiful! Yes, you're doing fine!' But I feel like a child when I'm an actress.

Bad directors are the ones who want to tell you every move, and think they're a better actor than you.

I think players maybe now want to look more pretty than anything else. What I feel disappointed about when I watch games is too many players think of themselves. Still good players, maybe better than we were, but looking too much at themselves.

You've got to know what your 'thing' is, and you've got to call it a 'thing,' whether it's meanness, nastiness, un-forgiveness, arrogance, ego, resistance, rebelliousness or defiance. Everybody's got a 'thing,' and once you call your 'thing' a 'thing,' we can give it a place to be or dismiss it.

I'm such a diva on set.

A man's car is like an extension of their ego and their manhood.

While my megalomania knows no bounds, directing is one thing I have never really done. I directed a couple of plays. That was the extent of it.

You can take that 'I'm an artiste' stuff to the wrong extreme, too.

I don't need a big K Street office or a British secretary or a facade for my ego.

Who wouldn't fall in love with me?

As a band gets more successful, there's a danger of falling in love with your own shadow.

False confidence is false confidence.