Mayim Bialik Quotes

I came from the music business, which reputedly has the biggest egos, but I really think the airline world caps it.

Like any other, this is an industry where complexes, ego and politics abound.

When you play for Manchester United, the pressure's on every week.

You want to play in the big games, you want to play for a big club and to play with pressure.

Once you start telling people you're famous, they believe you.

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

To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

Parading our own brilliance and exulting in other people's errors is not very nice. For that matter, even wanting to parade our own brilliance and exult in other people's errors is not very nice, although it is certainly very human.

I've been fortunate Daytona is a place I've run better than anywhere else, and that's a big race. Maybe it has to do with attention and pressure and the drive to do well when a lot of people are watching.

In retrospect I realize that the threat was about ego rather than the validity of the music.

An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.

The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play.

It's a sensitive thing, playing major league baseball.

Gentlemen, start your egos.

People judge you by the way you play in the playoffs.

Folk musicians have a lot of the same self-importance, but they're way more cruel and jealous than rock musicians - I know this for a fact because I used to be a folk musician.

With roasting, you've really got to bring your A-game. I hate to admit it, but I probably think and obsess more about the roasts than my own series. Because there's so much attention focused on the roasts. It's like the 'Super Bowl' of comedy. Everybody is going to talk about it. Forever.

I've played for Real Madrid, where the pressure is so huge because you have to go and really win absolutely every game.

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.

All Society therefore is either for Gain, or for Glory; (i.e.) not so much for love of our Fellowes

Everyone wishes to catch popular applause for himself, and readily represses the fame of others.

I think that some people get wrapped up in their own egos. They need to see certain album sales and certain monuments.

It's harder when you're supposed to win. When you're talking about the best players and the best teams in the world, when you talk about the Heat, you can ask them - it's not easy.

People ask me why I became an actor, and the truth is that once you get cut from the baseball team, you need another angle to get women to pay attention.

I'm only as good as my next appearance and my next match.