Quotes About Ego

When I am out and about I feel watched. It's become second nature. The only time I get to be private is in my work. That is when I liberate the ego. The blessed-out sensation of liberating the ego.

Grandiosity lessens as work proceeds.

Pay attention to the work you want to do and everything'll work out fine. If you're in it for the ego, you might be successful but at a limited level.

The most important thing is to be proud of the work that you put into something, and put the ego aside.

It's continuously humbling to work hard, you know? As long as you've got a good work ethic and a sense of humor, I don't think anybody can become too much of an egoist under those circumstances.

Every time someone asks me who I want to work with, my answer is always the same: whoever wants to work with me that won't want to get their ego stroked.

As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk.

I have a big ego, and I'm a confident person, but when it comes down to being a jerk, that doesn't work for me, I tried it... for about ten years.

Ego stops you from getting things done and getting people to work with you. That's why I firmly believe that ego and success are not compatible.

If you're a writer, you have to be an egomaniac. You have to just believe in yourself, which is hard work.

Trump's inability to relate actions to consequences, his profound intellectual ambivalence about history, strategy and facts, in addition to his notoriously delicate ego, combine to create a risk we've never seen in a President during a nuclear crisis.

It takes so much strength to say to your ego, 'You know what? You're going to keep me lonely, so I have to ignore you.'

The thing I like to stress about TV is that it's a team exercise. You really can't have too much of an ego.

I think movie sets can often be stressful, and people take themselves very seriously.

The thing to strive for is to get paid to talk about yourself.

When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.

Winning is important in this league. Just check your ego at the door. It's all about winning. That's what we all should be striving for.

Guys need attention. They need that nourishment, that little stroke of the ego that gets them by every now and then.

The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.

I tell myself, 'You're great, you're powerful, you're strong. You're the greatest, most powerful, strongest fighter in the world.' I acknowledge my greatness. I bow down before my greatness. I inflate myself like that, and then I pop the balloon in a single sentence by saying: You can be beaten.

I think I have let ego get in the way sometimes - the pendulum swung pretty strongly. I was maybe a little overconfident at one point in my time, and then I went way the other way and thought I wasn't capable of anything.

I'm not one of those who gets star struck at all, I don't feel I should give someone so much importance just because they are famous.

One of the main destructive forces within our family has been these runaway egos. I think if you look at any show business family, that struggle exists.

When you're playing someone who has a strong ego about themselves, you can't play them when you have the opposite opinion of the one they have of themselves.