Quotes About Ego

we would no longer call it an ego at all. The gift leaves all boundary and circles into mystery. The passage into mystery always refreshes. If, when we work, we can look once a day upon the face of mystery, then our labor satisfies. We are lightened when our gifts rise from pools we cannot fathom. Then we know they are not a solitary egotism and they are inexhaustible. Anything contained within a boundary must contain as well its own exhaustion. The

If you strip a lot of performers to the core, you find that urge to show off.

There is no me. I do not exist. There used to be a me but I had it surgically removed.

The ego being shattered is not what frightens me - that can be useful for writing - but the ego being inflated is sort of like it dying of gout.

Galileo got it wrong. The earth does not revolve around the sun. It revolves around you and has been doing so for decades. At least, this is the model you are using.

As far as base humiliation goes, acting is a tough business. It's a tough, embarrassing thing to do for a living when you're starting out, and you better not have any ego or pride, because that will be wiped away clean by utter devastation.

The Oscar is very beautiful, utterly mesmeric, but I don't feel any more important because I have won one. It doesn't mean I'm any better than anyone.

Our public figures are often narcissists, utterly self-absorbed in their quest for power.

It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.

I don't think anyone gets bored of being called good-looking. We are all vain in one way or another.

Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

I have been vain since birth.

I'm as vain as the next guy. I have a facade on right now. But you can't see it, because it's reality-based.

I'm not vain, I'm insecure.

I may be a vain person, but I'm not a vain performer.

Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty.

You've got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are better than anyone else to be president of the United States. People that vain, they want their place in history, and they want to be able to control how much they'll be worshipped by future generations.

I don't know what a supermodel is. If they call me that, I might have to punch them. It's just so vain and so unreal.

I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.

Most politicians are vain. Many of them are stupid.

Sam Duvet is like me but turned up: more vain and dumber.

Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.

As a person I'm perfectly vain, I'm just vainer as an actor about my ability. My acting vanity trumps my human vanity.

It's so rare, actors who are not vain.