Tyler Perry Quotes

An actor is a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening.

In modeling, because you're the center of attention, it builds up people's egos. Sometimes people lose touch with reality. But that happens with acting, too.

I'm quite repulsed by the diva type.

I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it.

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

I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.

I get embarrassed when I go to an actor or actress's home and it's filled with pictures of them.

I have been an actor for most of my life. When I started out, I didn't think about anything except what was good for me. Like many movie stars, I became all wrapped up in myself.

Some people change when they think they're a star or something.

Celebrity is okay as long as you know it's not about you.

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.

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

It's hard not to get a big head in the film industry, there are people on a set paid to cater to your every need, from the minute you arrive until you go home. It's kind of strange, but not unpleasant.

I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it.

Actors have bodyguards and entourages not because anybody wants to hurt them - who would want to hurt an actor? - but because they want to get recognized. God forbid someone doesn't recognize them.

I have an insatiable desire to be the center of attention.

Today some actors get a little full of themselves about what they're doing.

Narcissism has existed for a long time; social media is just a new outlet to express it. Anybody who is going to record themselves and put that on the Internet, hoping people will watch, there is a degree to which that exists, yeah. I don't know if I would call myself a narcissist. I don't necessarily identify with that label.

I think my biggest problem was, as a celebrity on a TV show, you get an inflated ego and you think you're the center of the universe.

I love to be the center of attention. My oversized ego craves it and needs it.

Celebrity gives us delusion of self importance.

There's simply too much fuss about myself.

I'm in a business that invites narcissism, self-involvement, and egos being blown out of proportion.

To enjoy being famous, you need to have a screw loose.

It's very hard not to let fame affect you because you are continually being told how good you are. After a while you begin to think there must be some truth in it because all those people can't be wrong.