Randy Newman Quotes

A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do something more than they do, whereby his superiority may be apparent.

There was one who thought himself above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.

Using every means possible to show that, although you're just an ordinary human being, you're far above other mortals.

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

He is lofty, and I am eminent.

He thought others were small; that was his greatness.

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.

Some nights, I was so good that I could have become an egotist.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

I don't think about other people. If I did, I'd wanna compete. But I don't think like that, because I'm above everybody.

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.

I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.

I own and operate a ferocious ego.

A sarcastic person has a superiority complex that can be cured only by the honesty of humility.

Even a cock crows over his own dunghill.

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say.

I'm the greatest thing that ever lived! I'm the king of the world! I'm a bad man. I'm the prettiest thing that ever lived.

If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.

When I would be myself, I was being big-headed. I was being egotistical. I was a megalomaniac, when it really was just having not to be a monkey for a few hours a day. And fulfilling the need to be a man.

People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.