Sam Fender Quotes

If you go through my Instagram feed, it's like a flip book of me thinking I'm way more attractive than I am. It's nauseating.

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

When you are 18, 19, 20, you're used to being photographed all the time, in a certain way. So, the narcissism becomes almost out of control. And the way that young women are photographed, they become addicted to this feedback of the image.

Social media, despite its reputation as the ultimate agent of self-promotion, actually feeds on self-loathing.

Narcissism has existed for a long time; social media is just a new outlet to express it. Anybody who is going to record themselves and put that on the Internet, hoping people will watch, there is a degree to which that exists, yeah. I don't know if I would call myself a narcissist. I don't necessarily identify with that label.

I just don't understand how people can get so caught up in having their picture taken.

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

It breaks my heart when I see young women swept up in today's celebrity culture that encourages them to give themselves away for the sake of a few likes on social media.

Everybody is so hungry for referrals, for 'likes.' I don't need to be liked. I don't need to be liked at all. I don't care if there's a button right there at the top of Drudge saying 'like' or 'dislike,' 'thumbs up,' 'thumbs down,' it doesn't mean anything.

The truth is that most of your Facebook friends are too busy counting their own 'likes' to pay attention to you for more than a few seconds anyway. Unless you happen to be a kitten who's in love with a baby goat, in which case you should hire a publicist immediately.

The trouble with the artists this year is they are all obsessed with Twitter and headlines. It feels like they are all getting a bit above themselves.

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

If people are like, 'Oh, you're an icon,' then whatever. But who thinks of themselves like that? It's not like I have posters of myself on the wall.

I loathe narcissism, but I approve of vanity.

I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it.

Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.

I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.

Normally I sit there in the films really hating watching myself. Loving watching the films, hating watching myself.

I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.

It's such a weird thing: to sit and look at yourself is so distracting to the psyche. It would be like me standing in front of a mirror and looking at myself all day, trying to find a flaw.

One of the hardest things for me to do is watch myself. The first time I see it, I am obsessed with my left ear or my right ear or some other physical attribute, or the fact that I'm 60 or whatever shallow ego thought is running through my head. I'm just destroyed that I'm not Cary Grant or whatever.

Balthazar Balsan is not a self-portrait. If he was, I'd have made the character more flattering.

There are athletes and celebrities that are out there and they Twitter and they constantly try to drum up press because they're narcissists.

I think 'selfies' are fun and expressive, as long as you don't get carried away with it.

I've been out with men who have literally had an argument with the mirror because they couldn't get their hair right. When I was younger, I might have reassured him, but I can't do that anymore.