Quotes About Ego

What happens if the music or alter ego isn't well received? The fact that people are talking about it, I won already.

It is difficult to help a man without hurting his pride. Everyone wants to be a giver and not a receiver.

It's so easy to become obsessed with the film industry and recognition that we can forget that we are not saving the world. We are just actors trying to entertain people.

To have a little recognition, that is very nice, you dig. It is good for the ego, for the psyche.

I remember in Charlotte, they looked to me every day. I'm 30 now. And now it's, 'Let's just win.' Maybe when I was 26 there would have been ego. Now, I just appreciate the recognition for the defense.

What kind of recognition do I deserve? I don't deserve any recognition.

It would be completely laughable if I claimed I was always motivated by the pure craft of acting and that recognition doesn't play a part. Of course it does - that's human nature.

The beauty of having your ego checked as many times as my ego was checked in Newark made me recognize how much I needed other people who were very different than me in order to get big things done.

I get recognized just often enough to keep my ego bouncing along, but not so much that I can't go places.

I have an ego like everyone else. I want to be recognized as a good ballplayer.

I always call myself a recovering narcissist. I lived my life thinking everything was about me.

Checking your ego, abandoning it, letting it go, is a huge part of recovery from addiction.

I'd been out to a lot of people since 19. I wish to God it had happened then. I don't think I would have the same career - my ego might not have been satisfied in some areas - but I think I would have been a happier man.

I have a hard time with any sort of criticism; not because I have some huge ego or anything like that.

If we did not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could never harm us.

I can always tell if someone's from Harvard because they trot out their vitae. I would die at Harvard.

I know that there are no famous 'Doug Harvey plays.' And I'm proud of that.

I go to Buzzfeed and 'Huff Po,' IMDB, 'Deadline.' And then I just Google myself, like 'Aasif Mandvi in a hat,' and see what comes up.

We Americans can be haughty. We can be delusional.

I know I have the abilities to be a head coach or D-coordinator. It's something I wouldn't mind doing. But it's tough being a player and going back and doing something like that, because egos get in the way.

We just try not to get big heads.

I've seen people, when they get into these bigger and bigger jobs, it goes to their heads. I've seen it. Some people in life change who they are, and some don't. I'm basically the same guy I've always been.

I don't really think of myself as a heartthrob.

Censorship is the height of vanity.