Sam Wanamaker Quotes

Where's the mileage in an autobiography? Anyone who writes one inevitably casts themselves as a hero, and I'm not about to do that.

The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things that are entertaining to myself.

Social media has made the web all about me, me, me.

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

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

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.

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

The self is just not a worthy enough vehicle to worship.

It's dangerous talking about yourself too much because you find yourself talking in sound bites.

We're so very focused on ourselves and on self-promotion. It goes on all day with Facebook and Twitter and Instagram.

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!

I think this, I think basically I'm not interested in people following my work or making work like my work.

I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.

I didn't really even think of recording under my own name for a long time. I thought, 'I've got the rest of my life to do that.'

Ever the blameless narcissist, Trump always insists that the buck stops wherever convenient - for him, personally.

The more you speak of yourself, the more you are likely to lie.

Individuals motivated by self-interest, self-indulgence, and a false sense of self-sufficiency pursue selfish ambition for the purpose of self-glorification.

Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.

We never could clearly understand how it is that egotism, so unpopular in conversation, should be so popular in writing.

It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself.

People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?

All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes.

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.

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.

I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself.