Quotes About Ego

If every senator looks into the mirror and sees a future president, then every president looks into that same mirror and sees himself on Mount Rushmore.

No one is better at deprecating President Trump than President Trump - just ask him.

We Americans think quite highly of ourselves, and nothing makes us think more of ourselves than our romantic view of our presidents.

There are so many things to take into account - your ambition, your ego, the press, the consumers. You can never be sure that you'll be on top of the pile again.

Actually, the most entitled people I've met are indie rockers and indie actors, because they really believe their press.

When I came into the NFL, there were three things that were very important to me: money, power and prestige. I was powerful now because I was a famous athlete. I had prestige because I was doing what everybody wanted to do. And I had a lot of money.

In 'Legend,' I was burning with ego. In 'JJN,' I am playing someone who can die for his prestige.

I don't mean to be presumptuous, but I liken myself to the robber barons.

I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.

Films are always pretentious. There's nothing more pretentious than a filmmaker.

I must have been a really pretentious little girl.

They say De La Hoya is pretty boy. I am prettier.

I'm still pretty self-centered, greedy and angry.

If you check your ego at the door when it comes to comedy, you've got a pretty good shot at making a great movie that you can commit yourself to, you can jump off the proverbial cliff with, and have a great time, and the audiences respond to that.

Pretty good, you know it's nice when you get people coming up to you saying 'Can I have a photo or an autograph'; it's a compliment, I think.

There is a danger of building an identity around the idea of being smart because it is very easy to become off-putting, to become exclusionary.

There's a danger in Hollywood of becoming self-obsessed.

Personally, I think getting obsessed with yourself is the most dangerous thing.

I'm not a star, darling.

I wouldn't date an actress. There's only room for one actor in my life and I'm it. Too difficult. On the one hand, they understand the job. But on the other hand, it's very competitive within the relationship. Two actors, say one becomes a mega-star and the other doesn't.

It's a terrible mistake when it gets to be a contest of egos. The actor is always going to win. If a director gets into a control situation and is overbearing, it's deadly.

I want to win every debate and I think I do.

I have a very big conflict with the individualization of love. I feel like it's egotistical to just love one person when you can love so many of them. I feel so much love that I declare myself a lover of all.

Writers who do crap work believe they have turned in spun gold and all their little darlings must be defended.