Ego Quotes

Part of what makes you great as a young player can hurt you at the end of your career, in terms of you need a certain amount of ego, a certain amount of arrogance to be able to play well and to push yourself and trick yourself into thinking you're better than you really are.

A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up. It just does it.

Am I an ego on legs? No I am not. Do I want to be seen out there all the time saying everything? No, I don't.

Fabio kept asking me out, but I knew we'd never get his ego through the door.

You need a big ego to be an artist.

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.

People come into public life for different reasons. None of us are ego-challenged, I think, or we probably wouldn't be doing what we're doing, so if anyone tells you that they don't like the sound of the applause and the ego gratification, I don't think they're being straight with you.

The ego is a fascinating monster.

I have to tell you, you can't have an ego when you're an actor. A lot of actors have them, but in reality most of those people are just sensitive artists dying for a hug and a compliment.

The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.

Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.

The ego is not master in its own house.

The column's worked out great for me. I've gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fun, won a batch of prizes and occasionally done some public good.

Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way.

The ego constantly competes with the spirit for control over your inner voice.

I have a huge ego and a huge inferiority complex at the same time.

If you're in such a position of power and your ego is such that this is not possible, then its essential to have a small cadre of very bright, committed people who are questioning, exploring and understanding these emerging concepts.

There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.

An actress must never lose her ego - without it she has no talent.

You need ego but mine is not blinding.

It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music.

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

I loved to make people laugh in high school, and then I found I loved being on stage in front of people. I'm sure that's some kind of ego trip or a way to overcome shyness. I was very kind of shy and reserved, so there's a way to be on stage and be performing and balance your life out.

When you're older and wiser a lot of the ego has gone out of the window.

I have no self-centeredness or ego about being a movie star.

I get pretty terrified, to be honest, when I'm on tour. You really have to muster a lot of ego to go our there, which I find rather draining.

And it's a question of how far we're willing to go in order to let the ego shine, in order to let that beacon penetrate not only the local scene but the world.

I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

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.