Cecily von Ziegesar Quotes

Anyone can become a game show host. It simply requires a giant, narcissistic ego and an inability to do anything else. The closest thing to school I did was looking in the mirror one hundred times a day and repeating, 'People should listen to you talk.'

I've never had writer's block.

Everybody wants to be me. What can I say?

Most of the characteristics which make for success in writing are precisely those which we are all taught to repress ... the firm belief that you are an important person, that you are a lot smarter than most people, and that your ideas are so damned important that everybody should listen to you.

I told my wife the other day, I'm the Halle Berry of the NBA. Everybody wants this, baby. Everybody wants me.

I’m gonna show you how great I am.

I'm basically a know-it-all, and I'm writing a book about it. I want it to be called 'Danson on Water' and have me on the cover in this Christlike pose, standing on the water.

The lives of most authors - even, or perhaps especially, the great ones - are necessarily a catalogue of tedious inwardness and cloistered composition. Globe-trotting Hemingways and brawling Christopher Marlowes are the exception, not the rule.

People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?

There is only one legend. That's me.

Clearly I've got an ego.

If I scribbled a few words on a cocktail napkin and showed it to my family, they'd proclaim it astonishing and more culturally relevant than the Bible.

When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.

Don't be humble... you're not that great.

No poet or orator has ever existed who believed there was any better than himself.

There is no doubt in my mind who is number one - I have always been number one.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

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

Who is most deserving of all of the money that I, Zlatan, am paid? The answer is Zlatan.

I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not.

Egotism: The art of seeing in yourself what others cannot see.

I tend to be more arrogant on stage. Far more ignorant. I sometimes say what I think and sometimes say the opposite of what I think and the lines get blurred, but I can only hope that some kind of absolute power transcends.

Every once in a while, I'll have a 'Do you know who I am?' moment, at least in my head. I hate that.

I think I'm cool. That's all that matters.

We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world.