Heidi Julavits Quotes

If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.

When you begin to believe you have license because you are a special person breathing special oxygen, that's when you're in big trouble. That's the road to insanity. And a lot of people in the studios are like that. They believe that they are special. I do think actors are blessed, or cursed, with maybe a slightly heightened awareness, which you have to use.

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

↑ top up position down The fact that I suspect I'm an asshole means I probably am not, because a real asshole doesn't think he's an asshole, does he? Therefore, by realizing that I'm an asshole, I am in fact negating that very realization, am I not? Descartes's Asshole Axiom: I think I am; therefor I'm not one.

I had fooled myself into thinking that I was something important to the rest of the world.

I think everybody identified at a pretty young age that I was fairly entranced with myself. And that I had to be tempered.

Any of us in the public eye must remember: Never, ever believe your own press, and pray to develop a hypersensitive gag reflex regarding your own importance.

World leaders and major political figures have often had delusions of grandeur.

If a man thinks he is not conceited, he is very conceited indeed.

I don't think about myself very much.

When you're young, you kind of take yourself seriously, and you think, like, "People need to see what I can do." And it's so laughable, especially with actors.

We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And, indeed, we seem a species prone to that delusion, again and ever again." ~Fiddler, pg. 558

I think if he [Donald Trump] goes to the super bowl, he thinks the guys in the huddle are talking about him.

I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ.

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.

We are never, never so much in danger of being proud as when we think we are humble.

There's a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It's deceptive because when you have pride, you're usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn't sell well.

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

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

Clearly I've got an ego.

I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.

You can get a bit 'head in the clouds' - well, I do - and full of myself if I stick in front of the camera for too long. I forget there is hard work that needs to be done.

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.

To be a man's own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody's.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.