Quotes About Ego

I wanted at one point to act, which is a weird thing for men to want to do. It's a very vain profession.

Anyone who achieves any kind of success, however you want to define it, sometimes can't let go of it.

Everybody wants to fight me so they can be a superstar.

Your ego gets activated real quick, you really want to impress yourself. But when you come back to it, sometimes you're like, "Yeah, this part? I don't know. This guy needs a lot of help."

People want to be at the center of the Universe...and they're going to flock to anybody who tells them that.

The ego does not want to be wrong, ever.

I think ambition is a desire for recognition. People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.

People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.

An ability to compromise is important. That means stepping back and getting the ego out of the way in order to accomplish what you want to get done.

My ego's not the kind that says, 'I want to be an actor and be accepted as that.

I think people just probably don't want people to think that they're vain.

What the ego doesn't want us to see is that our pain doesn't come from the love we weren't given in the past, but from the love we ourselves aren't giving in the present.

We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the parade.

Method actors are absolutely terrible. They want to direct themselves, and it's a disaster.

You know, I try to avoid Googling myself, but sometimes I slip up. Sometimes I just want to see how the world is viewing me on a particular day.

At the end of the day if you want to entertain people, you've got to take your ego out of the equation.

How to find joy? Let your ambition disappear; ambition is the barrier. Ambition means an ego trip: "I want to be this, I want to be that - more money, more power, more prestige."

It's difficult to change, because I have to admit that I have been previously living in a less compassionate and loving way. Sometimes we just want to be right instead of fully conscious.

Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

Isn't there a mirror someplace where you can go admire yourself?" "I never knew a woman so hung up on my good looks." "All your women are hung up on your good looks. They just pretend it's your personality.

Isn't there a mirror someplace where you can go admire yourself?" - Molly "I never knew a woman so hung up on my good looks." - Kevin "All your women are hung up on your good looks. They just pretend it's your personality." "I swear, somebody needs to spank you." "You are, like, so not the man to do it." "You are, like, such a damned brat.

It's a good thing I have an oversize ego because if I didn't, you'd have destroyed it.

Talking to him was like engaging in a fistfight with someone gazing at himself in the mirror while punching you.

Talking to him was like engaging in a fistfight with someone gazing at himself in a mirror while punching you.