Kim Deal Quotes

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

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.

People expect not just songwriters but all personalities to pontificate about their egos - they just wanna see someone talking about themselves constantly. I'm not interested in that.

My ego is really good. I don't need to watch myself on TV, like some others.

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

If you allow fame to get the better of you, you become nuisance, a public nuisance, a nuisance as a friend, as a member of the family, a nuisance to yourself.

If someone uses the amount of time I spend in the public eye as criteria for what my music could possibly mean to them, they probably should take a long, hard look in the mirror and figure out why they need to think they're so special. Because I don't think anybody is that special.

Self importance is man's greatest enemy.

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

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

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

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 used to spend a lot of time just thinking about myself, thinking that the party started when I showed up.

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.

For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.

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

I'm not a diva, I'm not an egotistical guy that comes and thinks he's bigger than anyone.

Vanity is not high on my list of priorities.

The great corrupter of public men is the ego - corrupter because distracter. Wealth, sensuality, power cannot hold a candle to it. Looking in the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.

Oh lord, it's hard to be humble when your perfect in every way. I can't wait to look in the mirror, cause I get better looking each day.

As a lead singer, all I want to do is be in my own head and think about how great I am. That's a lead singer's disease.

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

Egotism is a kind of buckram that gives momentary strength and concentration to men, and seems to be much used in Nature for fabrics in which local and spasmodic energy is required.