Joan Rivers Quotes

Ego is something that everybody, creative especially, has to grapple with. You need enough ego to keep going but not so much ego that you're deaf or blind, that you're making a mistake and can't fix the course.

You don't want to vilify your ego.

It took awhile for me to get used to speaking candidly about my own life. I got into it, and it turned out to be a wonderful experience.

I'm not nearly as important as I used to think I was. It's a wonderful discovery.

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure.

I feel myself becoming the fearless person I have dreamt of being. Have I arrived? No. But I'm constantly evolving and challenging myself to be unafraid to make mistakes.

The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.

I once had a dream and this one familiar god, who was probably one of my master teachers, said, 'You should not worry about being on the charts. That's not important.'

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

And I, uh, I wonder how anybody can think his personality changes with his success. I've had quite a bit of success but I feel that I'm just the same person as I always was.

The joke I always make about myself is that I'm self-involved, but I'm not vain.

It's very healthy to be aware of your ego.

I believe that the biggest problem that humanity faces is an ego sensitivity to finding out whether one is right or wrong and identifying what one's strengths and weaknesses are.

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

If I find myself afraid or scared, that means I'm doing the wrong thing.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

I think you have to ask questions that are scary to ask, and you cannot apologize for that, and you cannot worry what anyone else thinks about your journey.

I think I'm better than all the people who are trying to reform me.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

I think everyone is born 100 percent ego, and after that it's just adjustment.

I'm the sort of person that doesn't really have specific 'inspiration.' It probably comes more from my doubts and my desires.

I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.

The only way to get under me is to get over yourself.