Mahershala Ali Quotes

Strikers are egotists, selfish. We have to be.

You have to be selfish to be an actor.

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

I think most people act in their self-interest.

Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.

The dilemma I have is that everything I do at work is all about me, and at what point is that selfish? I'm just talking and singing about myself, or I'm standing on a stage and hoping that everybody likes me. Obviously, it's also about the music and feeling and connecting; I know it's deeper than that.

If you do not want to explore an egoism you should not read autobiography.

Our true passions are selfish.

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.

A lot of comedians are selfish.

It doesn't matter who wins if I don't. I only care if I win. I'm jealous of anyone else who wins.

I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

If you are passionate only about yourself -that is the road to disaster.

Actors are inherently self-centered.

I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.

I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.

It's an ugly thing to see ambition and to see people satisfying themselves.

Short-sighted is the philosophy which counts on selfishness as the master motive of human action.

People always choose self-preservation over the greater good, most of the time, with the belief that self-preservation is the greater good.

The Trumps have spent exactly zero percent of their lives caring about anyone other than themselves.

If I can do something about it and won't because I want to hog the limelight, then I really have no right to talk about women's empowerment.

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.

That was one of the things that interested me about the character. He doesn't want to be a hero, and has no real desire to save the earth or discover aliens. He's sniffing around looking to see what will fall in his lap.