Rupert Graves Quotes

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

I've been accused of not really paying attention to a sentence unless my name comes up in it twice.

I'm only realizing now that I was a child actress because I always took myself so seriously.

Childish egocentrism is, in its essence, an inability to differentiate between the ego and the social environment.

You must learn to perceive as your self that which lies outside you. Looking only within oneself leads to a hardening in oneself, to a higher egotism.

You can't get too caught up in yourself.

I don't take myself too seriously, as I think I used to years ago, when I was younger.

If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on.

These illustrations suggest four general maxims[...]. The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself. The second is: don't over-estimate your own merits. The third is: don't expect others to take as much interest in you as you do yourself. And the fourth is: don't imagine that most people give enough thought to you to have any special desire to persecute you.

When you're a child you're the center of everything. Everything happens for you. Other people? They're only ghosts furnished for you to talk to.

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

If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.

The romantic idealism of my youth has been replaced with realism and hard work at what I love.

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.

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

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

I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s.

I can honestly say I love getting older. Then again, I never put my glasses on before looking in the mirror.

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

I'm not the angry, rebellious child that I was. You can remain a child for a long time. I certainly did. I was a slow learner.

Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

It's normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self's agenda.