Jonathan Pryce Quotes

As far as big egos, there are definitely guys out there that just think God only knows what about themselves.

When I would be myself, I was being big-headed. I was being egotistical. I was a megalomaniac, when it really was just having not to be a monkey for a few hours a day. And fulfilling the need to be a man.

I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.

The biggest turn-off for me is people who think the world of themselves. Arrogance is not a sexy quality, and it really gets on my nerves.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.

Conceit is God's gift to little men.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say.

My dad is an egomaniac.

It is a form of arrogance to assume that other people are even thinking about you.

I never wanted to be 'the big I-Am.'

Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.

Any time you talk about your own stuff you sound self-aggrandising.

There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.

Actors think they're far more important than they are, and that can only lead to hurt. People with colossal self-importance have very far to fall.

You can get a bit 'head in the clouds' - well, I do - and full of myself if I stick in front of the camera for too long. I forget there is hard work that needs to be done.

In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.

Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head.

Some of my favorite characters that I've played have been very pompous because I love making fun of pompous people.

Nobody has single-handedly done more for the U.S. than me.

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

Egos turn me off, big time.

The worst disease which can afflict business executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.