Walter Becker Quotes

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

It's really rare for film directors to be that interested in things other than themselves.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

I never really look at other people; I just worry about myself.

Self-pity is egotism undiluted, after all—self-centeredness in its purest form.

People get really caught up in their own trips.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

I look back on my life and have to face the fact that I have been narcissistic and selfish.

His fundamental interest throughout his life was himself.

Washington talks about herself and almost nothing else.

I don't focus on anyone but myself.

Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves.

Selfishness is the making a man's self his own centre, the beginning and end of all he doeth.

I’d always thought I was above being fascinated by anyone but myself.

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.

We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.

If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.

We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.

As a teenager, you are still entirely wrapped up in yourself.

I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.

I am selfish, but that's an attribute that all artists possess.

Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.

Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.

People are more interested in being visible than they are in loving other people.