Karan Johar Quotes

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.

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

I'm so tired of this vision of fashion of a diva with a big ego, and you think of big dark glasses to be pretentious and keep far away from the people.

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

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.

You know, I Google search my own name because I'm so self-obsessed!

The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them has an ego, and the problem with awards and stuff like that is that it always affects the egos, and everyone gets stained by it in some way. And that can be fine and very innocent, but it can be horrible as well.

Men often mistake notoriety for fame, and would rather be remarked for their vices and follies than not be noticed at all!

Vanity is the most dangerous thing about fame.

A coxcomb begins by determining that his own profession is the first; and he finishes by deciding that he is the first of profession.

The prestige you acquire by being able to tell your friends that you know famous men proves only that you are yourself of small account.

VANITY, n. The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.

Egotism is the tongue of vanity.

I went to see the Beatles last month... And I heard 20,000 girls screaming together at the Beatles... and I couldn't hear what they were screaming, either... But you don't have to... They're screaming Me! Me! Me! Me!... I'm Me!... That's the cry of the ego, and that's the cry of this rally!... Me! Me! Me! Me!... And that's why wars get fought... ego... because enough people want to scream Pay attention to Me... Yep, you're playing their game.

Vanity and dignity are incompatible with each other; vain women are almost sure to be vulnerable.

Conceit is lovable and unconcealed ; vanity is supreme selfishness, usually hidden.

What is vanity but the longing to survive?

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.

The vain man makes a merit of misfortune, and triumphs in his disgrace.

Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had much better be concealed; namely, that their vanity has survived themselves.

It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.

One of the troubles about vanity is that it grows with what it feeds on. The more you are talked about, the more you will wish to be talked about.

Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit; for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinion of others, the latter is perfectly satisfied with its opinion of itself.

Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves.

Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities, merits, and achievements, but because of one's individual existence. At best, therefore, it is a frivolous beauty whim it befits.