Kirk Cameron Quotes

In modeling, because you're the center of attention, it builds up people's egos. Sometimes people lose touch with reality. But that happens with acting, too.

I'm in a business that invites narcissism, self-involvement, and egos being blown out of proportion.

Tweeting - let's be honest: it's like I'm the center of the universe; it's all about me. Everybody is listening to my every thought, and my current thought at this very moment is... it's ridiculous.

I have been an actor for most of my life. When I started out, I didn't think about anything except what was good for me. Like many movie stars, I became all wrapped up in myself.

Some people change when they think they're a star or something.

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

I get plenty of, 'Is that song about me?' from men but I just tell them to get over themselves.

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

I went from being a senator, a young senator, to being considered for vice president, running for president, being a vice presidential candidate, and becoming a national public figure. All of which fed a self-focus, an egotism, a narcissism that leads you to believe that you can do whatever you want.

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

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.

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 know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it.

I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.

I think; therefore, I am the center of the universe.

Hollywood is so governed by the ego, and I never wanted to fall into that trap.

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.

My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them.

There's a weird cloud around you when you're recognizable. It was a brief window for me. I think you have to have a pathological need for attention of any type, negative or positive, to thrive in that kind of situation. And I only want compliments.

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

Actors are real egomaniacs. They get into a movie, they think the whole movie's about them.

When you have a book out, it's like a period of protracted or concentrated megalomania, and it's really not normal or good for you or any of that.

Just being in the industry that I'm in, you get people building up your ego - 'Oh, you guys are the best, you guys are gods.' So I started believing the hype - 'Yes, I am a god!'

Musicians are all about celebrity first and foremost, and I just can't do it. The second any sort of popularity contest comes into the picture, I have to walk in the other direction. These people are sociopaths.