Quotes About Ego

There are times when your ego has to contract.

My ego is controlled enough that I don't have to be the focus.

When you constantly claim you are the best, people start to believe that. I see that happen a lot. You can convince a lot of people by talking, even if that has nothing to do with your actual performances. But that's not my thing.

I am a better cook than I am an actor. If I have any ego, it's about cooking. I'm one of the best cooks... and I cook in any language.

Me and Uzi aren't friends. We used to be cool. It's not beef; it's just competition. That's all it is. We're not friends.

I'm the best corner in the game!

I think I'm the best, of course. How could I not?

Some of my friends say that I only talk about myself. But it is funny: my house is covered in art but with nothing of my own, and when I'm working, I'm only thinking about what the client wants. So I don't see it that way, but maybe it's true. I mean, they are my friends.

I like being in a collaborative and respectful environment. When you're in an environment spearheaded by ego and fear, it's the death of creativity.

You have to take your ego out of it and say, do I want people to be obsequious to me or do I want to write good books? If it's the latter, you have to take criticism. It's annoying, but that's how to do good stuff; listen to other people.

Men are much more egotistical. But that means women can accept criticism and improve easier than men can.

'Election' is a movie I'd give a leg to cross the director's name out and put mine in.

Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.

It's really nice to look around the other top skips in curling and know that I'm six, eight, 10 years younger than some of them. That is good on the ego.

I don't really give a damn about too much other than myself.

I don't feel like I'm important enough to do a damn biopic, like who would want to see that?

A man marries the most gorgeous girl he can find because It's human nature to want the best of anything. If other men admire her he likes that, too. We all work best under competition. After all, no one wants to face an egg beater across the breakfast table... or find a horror movie in his home when he doesn't even own a TV set.

Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on it, they need it. They need that kind of adoration. If their name isn't in the tabloids once a week they feel like a failure.

As a player, you don't put a price tag on your own head. You can't go around thinking, 'I'm worth that much.'

The whole format of an awards function seems to be tailor made for a television audience. I think it is just an ego boosting affair.

I am a little bit of an egomaniac. I like being in front of the camera, so I take advantage of it when I can.

It's instinct: Men love to feel like they take care of you. Knowing you feel protected makes his ego grow two sizes bigger.

There are much more important things than a man going to the gym. Of course they have to take care of themselves on a certain level, but it's not essential. I think men do it more to impress other men.

I hate acting when I see it. I don't want to feel it, I don't want to see it, I want to be taken away with the story - I don't want the actor's ego in front of me. That's what I try to live when I do the work.