Jakob Dylan Quotes

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

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

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.

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

I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.

I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!

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!

Jodi Melnick is hotly self-absorbed. Her onstage musicians are much too loud, and like so many narcissistic performers, she goes on much too long: She's interested in herself; why wouldn't we be?

Boris Johnson has only ever cared about Boris Johnson.

The peril of every fine faculty is the delight of playing with it for pride. Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character, and the greater it grows, the more is the mischief. Talent is mistaken for genius, a dogma or system for truth, ambition for greatness, ingenuity for poetry, sensuality for art.

Creativity is narcissism. Creativity is falling in love with one's self as you create. It's self-indulgent.

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.

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

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.

Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

Racing is a very selfish, self-centred, self-glorifying thing. My wife's life for 14 years was centered around me. It was all about me. It was all for my ego.

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

Some people have a blog that's, like, 'Today I brushed my teeth.' Well, who cares? Who cares that you brushed your teeth. Okay - you brushed your teeth! That's so massively egocentric, it's just ridiculous.

I got too caught up in Hollywood, being so into myself and my image.

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.

The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.