Chip Gaines Quotes

When I did the film 'Hear My Voice' a few years ago, I disappeared fully up my own backside for a while. Because I thought my career was taking off, I became a bit of an egomaniac and a pain in the neck. I thought I was God's gift to mankind and the greatest Irishman since George Best.

If I was sharp in every area, I might be too big-headed or something.

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.

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

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 vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.

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

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

Self-consciousness is really a form of egotism.

I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.

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.

Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.

He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.

I don't think I could do what Woody Allen or Clint Eastwood or Ben Stiller do, where they direct a movie and they star in it. I would just be like, 'Oh, I don't even want to look at my face.'

Today some actors get a little full of themselves about what they're doing.

I think I have let ego get in the way sometimes - the pendulum swung pretty strongly. I was maybe a little overconfident at one point in my time, and then I went way the other way and thought I wasn't capable of anything.

Any of us in the public eye must remember: Never, ever believe your own press, and pray to develop a hypersensitive gag reflex regarding your own importance.

The biggest obstacle that stalls leaders' growth is the human ego. When leaders start to think they know it all, they stop growing.

I may be a vain person, but I'm not a vain performer.

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.

The worst quality in a man is a really big ego - that would turn me off.

Success is very intoxicating. It is very difficult to handle all the fame and adulation. It corrupts you. You start to believe that everybody around you is in awe of you, that everybody wants you, and that everybody is thinking of you all the time.

I don't like seeking all the attention. When you start doing stuff like that, it gets into your head, you are not being yourself.

Always thinking that you're not very good is far better than being cocky.

I think I'm still, in many ways, a terribly self-conscious person. I'd probably be shooting and think, "Well, how does my hair look?"