Quotes About Ego

Ambition can be a disease, and it feeds on itself.

It's hard for a fellow to keep a chip on his shoulder if you allow him to take a bow.

It is a proud moment for any male actor to have thousands of females chasing you.

If directors, actors and writers have the ability to drop their alpha-male egos, you will always get better work. In terms of my own demands, I actually want fewer lines. If I can lose a line and do it with my face, I'd rather do that.

I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of seeing the big picture.

I never believed I was the best fighter in the world.

Just because I beat David Haye doesn't make me a great fighter. I'm still the same fighter that I was.

Fans love McGregor, but 11 out of 10 fighters will say they don't like him because he respects nobody. I'd be 100 percent on his side if he respected others, but he only cares about himself.

A lot of fighters are cocky.

I've always mid-lined myself where I don't really expect myself to do big things or to win big fights. It's not a lack of confidence, it's just that I think to an extent that you need a bit of an ego if you're going to think that you're going to conquer something.

Whitaker will be nothing without Julio Cesar Chavez. I do not need Whitaker. Whitaker doesn't make the money I can. He can't fill arenas. He is nobody.

Maybe, as a Chinese woman, I was never told I would be a filmmaker, so I didn't have the ego set up.

No one finds me as funny as I find myself!

I think there's a fine line between confidence and arrogance.

It's a fine line between self-assuredness and arrogance.

The rich and famous expect to get a lot for their story, whether they are writing it themselves or not. It's not that they need the money, of course; it's a question of ego, like catching the biggest fish.

People rarely grow in humility once they reach the White House.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

From Jay-Z to Nas to Kanye to whoever, I'm just not the type to say, 'Hey, let me get on your album.' If they want me, they're going to reach out and say, 'I need a joint from you.'

I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it.

We have all had the experience at some point in our lives of sitting across from someone whose favorite subject is themselves. This is true of nearly everyone to some respect - but for some people, it is a particularly acute problem.

Oh, there's so much ego with men; in their head, they can't possibly think about Tesco's when they are doing Othello. Er, why not? They want to think that they are such geniuses they can't muddy their day with domesticity, and I've got no truck with it whatsoever.

These diva wide receivers want to go to the bathroom. As a defensive lineman, we didn't go to the bathroom.