Quotes About Ego

When I was 15 and dreaming about being a rock star... I thought the whole point of it was to get chicks.

You can't play not to lose. You kind of have to put your ego aside and accept the fact that careers are long, and there's gonna be stuff people like and stuff that people don't like, and you try to get better every time, and always put something out that you're proud of. And let the chips fall where they may.

Problems arise only when an artist chooses to be above the art. Not otherwise.

I have never ever Googled myself; in fact I think the Christian right prohibits such things.

It's easy to get caught up in a moment and think, 'Oh, I've been offered some giant studio film or a superhero franchise or some actor wants to meet with me about a project they want to do.' And it's easy to get caught up in a moment because it's flattering. But you can't do a movie because it's flattering.

I think as soon as you start believing you're doing something superior to other people, then you start losing the plot.

'The Big Lebowski' gave me my first false sense of intellectual superiority.

I have a superiority complex I need to get rid of.

When you start to become a movie star it's easy to believe that you are Superman. That can fool you. That's why I prefer not to pay much attention to fame.

Neymar is a superstar, much more of star than me.

I have never been a superstar and never believed in it.

I don't think in terms of being a superstar.

Things started to get out of control when I began reading that I was a superstar.

I'd like to believe that 'The Apprentice' was a big hit because I was such a superstar in the first season.

I'm just the same guy... I don't need to be a celebrity or a superstar.

What I love about Salman bhai is that he's one superstar minus any ego. And you see people around, who haven't achieved much in life, yet their ego is too strong.

The mind starts to do things that you didn't even realize it could do. I suppose it's the manipulation. I suppose it's the sense of power, the center of attention, and the me-ism. And performers have to have that.

My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though.

It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. I suppose a combination of ambition, ego, and a real feeling that he could make a difference and could accomplish some things. All you ever had to do for Jimmy Carter was to tell him something was impossible, and he would usually do it.

Ego suppression can be an act of ostentation.

I'm aware of the rift in the locker room. That's just alpha males and supreme athletes trying to share the spotlight.

I sure am handsome. I can't lie. This is one handsome guy.

Maybe I think too highly of myself, but I think maybe sometimes I can give some good advice - sometimes bad advice, I'm sure - and I think that's a way of giving back.

Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.