Max Cannon Quotes

People are really exercised about one particular thing, and that is themselves. They will bore you endlessly with their broken hearts.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited.

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

Particularly with middle-class people, self-absorption is a struggle.

I used to spend a lot of time just thinking about myself, thinking that the party started when I showed up.

We humans are self-absorbed by nature, and spend most of our time focusing inwardly on our emotions, on our wounds, on our fantasies.

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

You can't get too caught up in yourself.

I feel that I am entitled to trample all other considerations into the dirt in my pursuit of a satisfying pun.

Projecting yourself until everything is talking about you is, of course, a self-flattering form of self-pity

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

Obsession with self is the motif of our time.

It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for 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.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

A lot of young actors will do a scene and then run off and look at themselves. I don't believe in that at all.

There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.

All autobiography is self-indulgent.

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

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.

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.

It's impossible not to be taken in by the spectacle of oneself, which is the biggest sin of the culture right now.