Taylor Hackford Quotes

I can begin to understand how anchor monsters are made. If you're not careful, you can become used to being treated as though you're special and begin to expect it.

Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.

People get successful and they start saying, 'Well of course I am! I was chosen! I'm special!' No, you're not.

Nobody is as good as he thinks he is.

If you are well known at something else, you get points for doing stuff which lots of other people do, and much more, and they don't get any points at all. You get over-praised, over-credited.

People who have it too easy in early life have a disadvantage for later on, because they get to thinking that everything is going to be easy.

I don't want to be that guy that thinks he is a high draft pick and that he has it all.

The guys who play at a high level probably think they are better than they are, and that's all right.

I think it can be easy at a certain point to take it for granted that you can kind of perform whatever you want.

It is easy to see how after receiving this adoration for a term or two most members become convinced they are indispensable.

Nobody deserves to be treated like a princess 100% of the time... not even me.

I hate when people call me a star, because I don't consider myself to be a star.

I might have some delusions of grandeur.

I'm like one of those little chihuahua's that thinks they're ten feet tall.

I was a grown-up when 'celebrity' happened. So I knew exactly what it was like to be in line at a restaurant and watch someone famous walk in and get a table immediately. I knew I didn't like that; I don't want to make somebody else feel the way I felt.

Image overshadows reality in our league, and there are people who get to believe they are better than they really are.

I thought I was a superstar at 12.

Any time that you get big titles or head jobs at a young age, there's going to be that factor. 'He didn't pay his dues.'

No one needs to treat you like a star kid in the industry, but you do get pointed at... people assume you get everything on a silver platter, but that's not true.

I always felt that my talent would trump everything.

The war on privilege will never end. Its next grat campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged.

Anyone, without any great penetration, may distinguish the dispositions consequent on wealth; for its possessors are insolent and overbearing, from being tainted in a certain way by the getting of their wealth. For they are affected as though they possessed every good; since wealth is a sort of standard of the worth of other things; whence every thing seems to be purchasable by it.

I enjoy my rights, but I revel in my privileges.

Those who suffer from an exaggerated sense of their own ability and accomplishment are continually subject to frustration, disappointment, and rage when reality intrudes and the world doesn't validate their idealized view of themselves.

Success makes opportunities and so many of those "opportunities" are actually exemptions - from hardship, from unfriendliness, from struggle.