Erin Foster Quotes

Clearly I've got an ego.

Vanity is something that will only get in the way of doing your best work, and ultimately if you're truly vain you care more about your work than how you look in your work. I actually consider myself a pretty vain guy when it comes to that.

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

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.

I may be a vain person, but I'm not a vain performer.

I'm vain.

Show me someone not full of herself and I'll show you a hungry person.

There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride is a fine horse, that will carry us over the ground, and enable us to distance our fellow-travelers.

I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.

In my younger years my dedication may have expressed itself egotistically.

If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.

I've always been a narcissist.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

It's very difficult when there are pictures taken on the red carpet. I find those things so terrifying that another persona just kicks in. I don't recognise myself.

Vanity is but the surface.

I got too caught up in Hollywood, being so into myself and my image.

You get tangled up in your own ego of how you're perceived. You can lose your way.

Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?

The delicate balance between modesty and conceit is popularity.

I have a lot of vanity.

People think if you're a model then you must take yourself way too seriously.

If you see a man who is so obviously impressed with his own appearance, then you wonder what his priorities are.