Nushrat Bharucha Quotes

I think the concept of ego has kind of taken over for a lot of people in our industry.

Life's about ego. So for someone to talk about my ego, as they are writing their piece about my ego, I'm wondering what they're doing with their ego?

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

A lot of self-importance goes on in the fashion industry. I'm not like that.

I think that some people get wrapped up in their own egos. They need to see certain album sales and certain monuments.

Many said selfishness was the flaw of our modern age; but then self-conceit emerged from a corner of the deepest hell to join selfishness.

There are dull and bright, sacred and profane, coarse and fine egotists. It is a disease that, like influenza, falls on all constitutions. In the distemper known to physicians as chorea, the patient sometimes turns round, and continues to spin slowly in one spot. Is egotism a metaphysical varioloid of this malady?

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

Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

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

Ego is one of the biggest weapons that is used to take us down. It's self-destructive. It's a problem on all levels - even regular people can have big ego problems.

I think a lot of Bernstein - but not as much as he does.

Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director.

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

There's a little more ego involved in these jobs than people might realize.

That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.

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

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!

My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them.

An egotist is a person of low taste - more interested in himself than in me.

Gentlemen, start your egos.

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

Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.

The silent killer of all great men and women of achievement - particularly men, I don't know why, maybe it's the testosterone - I think it's narcissism. Even more than hubris. And for women, too. Narcissism is the killer.