John Edwards Quotes

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

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!

We have all had the experience at some point in our lives of sitting across from someone whose favorite subject is themselves. This is true of nearly everyone to some respect - but for some people, it is a particularly acute problem.

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.

Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.

Of course it's fun writing about an egomaniac, but I know there are going to be reviewers who've never met me, who don't know anything about me, who are going to say this is autobiography: he's just changed the names of a few people, and the rest is totally as it was.

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

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

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

If you try to talk about yourself honestly when you're an actor, you come off as stuck on yourself.

You are always talking about yourself and tennis and how you are feeling. I try to avoid it when I don't have to.

Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director.

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.

That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen.

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

I think my biggest problem was, as a celebrity on a TV show, you get an inflated ego and you think you're the center of the universe.

You know, I Google search my own name because I'm so self-obsessed!

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

No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.

For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.

Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.

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