Sam Fender Quotes

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

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

I'm in a business that invites narcissism, self-involvement, and egos being blown out of proportion.

For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.

There's a weird cloud around you when you're recognizable. It was a brief window for me. I think you have to have a pathological need for attention of any type, negative or positive, to thrive in that kind of situation. And I only want compliments.

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

If you allow fame to get the better of you, you become nuisance, a public nuisance, a nuisance as a friend, as a member of the family, a nuisance to yourself.

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.

I get plenty of, 'Is that song about me?' from men but I just tell them to get over themselves.

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

You are always talking about yourself and tennis and how you are feeling. I try to avoid it when I don't have to.

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.

I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don't live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.

You don't want to end up living a horribly narcissistic life, do you? And everything about fame and celebrity sort of suggests that kind of fate.

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!

My friends are all megalomaniacs - from Damien Hirst to Jack Nicholson - all of them.

You know, I Google search my own name because I'm so self-obsessed!

I get embarrassed when I go to an actor or actress's home and it's filled with pictures of them.

You shouldn't inflict yourself on the public when your fifteen minutes is up.

Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars.

I went to see the Beatles last month... And I heard 20,000 girls screaming together at the Beatles... and I couldn't hear what they were screaming, either... But you don't have to... They're screaming Me! Me! Me! Me!... I'm Me!... That's the cry of the ego, and that's the cry of this rally!... Me! Me! Me! Me!... And that's why wars get fought... ego... because enough people want to scream Pay attention to Me... Yep, you're playing their game.

When you're so out there in the public eye, people are constantly criticizing every aspect about you.

One, I never get sick of talking about myself.

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

Celebrity is okay as long as you know it's not about you.