Roseanne Barr Quotes

I used to spend a lot of time just thinking about myself, thinking that the party started when I showed up.

You can't get too caught up in yourself.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

I think; therefore, I am the center of the universe.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!

I'm frightened of my innate vanity. I mean: the suits lined with scarves? Even I know the warning signs. I could quite easily end up in a tiny Playboy mansion, all on my own.

We humans are self-absorbed by nature, and spend most of our time focusing inwardly on our emotions, on our wounds, on our fantasies.

There is no good talking to him," said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; "no good at all, for he has gone away." "Well, that is his loss, not mine," answered the Rocket. "I am not going to stop talking to him merely because he pays no attention. I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying." "Then you should definitely lecture on Philosophy," said the Dragon-fly.

It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.

People get really caught up in their own trips.

There's a danger in Hollywood of becoming self-obsessed.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered.

He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

It's impossible not to be taken in by the spectacle of oneself, which is the biggest sin of the culture right now.

We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.

I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something.

Particularly with middle-class people, self-absorption is a struggle.

I like to think I'm not a narcissist, but truth be told, we all have those sides to our character.

For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.