Wallace Stevens Quotes

One, I never get sick of talking about myself.

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.

People are more interested in being visible than they are in loving other people.

His fundamental interest throughout his life was himself.

I don't focus on anyone but myself.

There is definitely a pressure for funny people to be funny. People want them to perform all the time.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

A lot of comedians are selfish.

We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.

Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you.

Of course, we are all egoists. Egoism is so much a part of our humanity.

A good actor must never be in love with anyone but himself.

I read in one fan magazine that I was very self-centered. And I am.

I never really look at other people; I just worry about myself.

I believe that 'ego' is much overused term.

Life's all about 'me' anyway

All is egotism. The only people whose mainspring is not egotism are the dead and perhaps idiots.

Strikers are egotists, selfish. We have to be.

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.

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.

We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.

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.