Ethan Suplee Quotes

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

I find it alarming that people are so convinced they're the best at anything - presenting, hairdressing, getting dressed.

I'm the best. I should win everything.

The biggest turn-off for me is people who think the world of themselves. Arrogance is not a sexy quality, and it really gets on my nerves.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

When I did the film 'Hear My Voice' a few years ago, I disappeared fully up my own backside for a while. Because I thought my career was taking off, I became a bit of an egomaniac and a pain in the neck. I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.

The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down.

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone - I think it's narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.

You aren't that big a hot shot that we'd build this for you.

My dad is an egomaniac.

I've got it all: I'm good-looking, I'm educated, I can sing, and I can play rugby. Ridiculous, isn't it?

I had this attitude, that Silicon Valley obnoxious attitude, that I know what I'm doing, and the rest was going to be pretty easy.

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

Any time you talk about your own stuff you sound self-aggrandising.

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.

Actors think they're far more important than they are, and that can only lead to hurt. People with colossal self-importance have very far to fall.

As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw.

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

Under all wrongdoing lies personal vanity or the feeling that we are endowed and privileged beyond our fellows.