Steve Coogan Quotes

Actors are all narcissists.

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

Actors are inherently self-centered.

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

I was born with a need to be the center of attention, and, of course, you're the center of the world when you're acting.

I am a little bit of an egomaniac. I like being in front of the camera, so I take advantage of it when I can.

The mind starts to do things that you didn't even realize it could do. I suppose it's the manipulation. I suppose it's the sense of power, the center of attention, and the me-ism. And performers have to have that.

If you are too into the fans and adoration and the world thinking you are the greatest, then you do not perform well.

People assume that displaying your own personal ego on screen is called acting, which is actually not what acting is about.

Any time you talk about your own stuff you sound self-aggrandising.

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

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.

I think people who lack humility are really annoying.

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.

I love being the center of attention. I'm shameless about it.

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

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

I always had the idea that I wanted to perform. I love being the center of attention - and I always love talking about myself.

I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!

Jodi Melnick is hotly self-absorbed. Her onstage musicians are much too loud, and like so many narcissistic performers, she goes on much too long: She's interested in herself; why wouldn't we be?

You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors!

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

Again, as egotistical as I am, as self-centered as I am, and as much as I love strangers idolizing me, I find it very crass to be self-promoter in a way.

There's simply too much fuss about myself.